Jules Simon
Jules François Simon (31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.
Read more about Jules Simon: Biography, Political Career From 1848 To 1871, Third Republic, Works, Simon's Ministry, 12 December 1876 – 17 May 1877
Famous quotes containing the words jules and/or simon:
“They’re semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Stevenson had noble ideas—as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”
—Garry Wills, U.S. historian. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, ch. 9, Simon & Schuster (1994)