"You should never hand over a country to one man, whoever the man, whatever the circumstances."
— Adolphe Thiers

January 1, 1970

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Historians from FrancePresidents of FrancePrime Ministers of FrancePeople from MarseilleMinisters of Foreign Affairs (France)
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Histoire de Consulat et de l'Empire, Vol. XX (1862), pp. 795-796, quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 98