Treaties are like maidens and roses. They each have their day. - Charles de Gaulle

"Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?" "I do not doubt it. France is a great power."

How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

What England has done across the centuries and in the world is recognised as immense. Although there have often been conflicts with France, Britain's glorious participation in the victory which crowned the First World War—we French, we shall always admire it. As for the role England played in the most dramatic and decisive moments of the Second World War, no one has the right to forget it. In truth, the destiny of the free world, and first of all ours and even that of the United States and Russia, depended in a large measure on the resolution, the solidity and the courage of the English people, as Churchill was able to harness them. Even at the present moment no one can contest British capacity and worth.