"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."

"A Frenchman comes here to make money, and that is about all that need be said of him. He is only a Frenchman. He neit…"

"The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are."

"And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand."

"Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please."

"I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes."

"Une nation de singes à larynx de perroquets."

"Providence has given the French nation precisely two instruments, two arms, so to speak, with which it stirs up the w…"

"Tous les anciens peuples de la Gaule réunis en un seul peuple s’embrassent au nom des mêmes aïeux; et, comme ils ont …"

"France had been the cradle of anarchism, fathered for a long time by some of her most brilliant sons, of whom Proudho…"