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

January 1, 1970

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Remarks to a group of parliamentarians on the day the Élysée Treaty was ratified (1963), quoted in F. Roy Willis, France, Germany, and the New Europe 1945–1963 (1965), p. 314