"I don't mind London being so attractive to the French, but what I don't want is for there to be a widening gap betwee…"

"I have always got on well with Rachida, She's someone who has all sorts of qualities, an incredible energy, an import…"

"I don't buy the prevailing theory that capitals are becoming increasingly Left-wing, they are in full globalisation a…"

"You have to decide whether you want to take part in politics or not. We're a republic, not a monarchy, and the partne…"

"Have you ever tried to take the metro with a pushchair? I have two small boys. It's a nightmare, you can't replace th…"

"My only fight is for Paris."

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"