When one has millions and millions of yellow and black subjects what a strange idea it is to proclaim the principle of popular self-determination. - Jacques Bainville

In countries where, as in France, there is still an agricultural population and a majority of propriétaires, one need not fear social subversion.

Title of an article in Action Française on the Treaty of Versailles (8 May 1919), quoted in William R. Keylor, Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in Twentieth-Century France (1979), p. 137

Having erased Sedan, we now must erase Waterloo. France cannot be a great continental power unless she is a Rheinish power... French political wisdom has never consisted in immoderate acquisitions. In the days of France's European hegemony, she always preferred influence and infiltration to indigestion.