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- I regret not male and not serving in the army.
In such cases, the dose of flattery are essential.
You easily would have reached the rank of field Marshal!
- With my pugnacious character? - chuckled Catherine. - What are you, Ambassador! I would have threw in the rank of Lieutenant. - Saying goodbye with Duran, she is suddenly in full swing gave him a political slap in the face. I don't know what will be my further relations with Versailles, but I can unsubscribe to the king: the French are able to do in politics only what they can do, and Russia will do what she wants to do...

Russian - a great nation, and they made their choice. Like it or not, is irrelevant. Should Russia be a model for France? No. Should Russia be an ally for France? Yes.

... we are in France care little about how you think and act under the influence of momentary experiences. Our frivolity is not correct neither old age nor long experiences of life.

About the year of the horrible, of the ninety-third
Majestic! Hide in the depths of centuries.
Bloody glory crowned shadow:
We, dwarfs, unworthy of the immortal fathers,
And you thought it would be fun our war
When looked at the present day.
Ah, your sacred we have no heat,
Nor courage in the hearts, nor the power to hit
No flaming of friendship to the defeated enemies
And if we sometimes feel the desire
To pozloslovit, we only have three days of breathing
Sin enough in half.

In eighteenth century France there lived a man who belonged to the most brilliant and most heinous figures of this epoch, so rich in genius and disgusting figures. About it and speech will go. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. And if that name, unlike the names of other brilliant monsters like de Sade, Saint-just, Fouche, Bonaparte etc., now consigned to oblivion, it is not because Grenouille inferior to the famous spawn of darkness of arrogance, contempt for people, immorality, - in short, in atheism, but because his genius and his phenomenal ambition was restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history - volatile realm of scent.

"No," he said, more and more obsesses, Napoleon is great because he is above the revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserving all that is good and the equality of citizens and freedom of speech and press, and only because I got the power.

In the psychiatric hospital St. Anne is a Department for patients with a diagnosis called "Paris sekigun" - "Paris syndrome". Every year hundreds of Japanese people, disillusioned with Paris, depressed, and even paranoid. Their hospitalityat, treated and sent home.

In France hypocrisy is generated by education, is, so to speak, belonging to the "good manners" and almost always has political or social overtones. There are hypocrites of religion, hypocrites social bases of property, family, state, and lately people even hypocrites "order". If this kind of hypocrisy cannot call it a belief, then, in any case, it is the banner around which gather people who find the calculation politsemerit is the fact, and not otherwise. They are hypocrites, consciously, in the sense of your banner, that is, and you know that they are hypocrites, Yes, moreover, know what it is and others notorious. In terms of French bourgeois universe is nothing like the extensive stage, which provides endless theatrical performance in which one hypocrite gives a replica to another. Hypocrisy is an invitation to propriety, the decorum, to the beautiful exterior environment, and most importantly, hypocrisy is a bridle. Not for those, of course, that hypocrisy floating in the Empyrean heights of the public, and to those which swarm on the bottom of the public pot...

More than anything the French love to talk. Conversation for the sake of conversation, regardless of topic and tone, whether it's proof, issue, sympathy, message specific information or philosophical reflections.

And who invented that France is a country of frivolity? France is a country of boredom and sullen bureaucracy.

French women don't hesitate to open the neck and shoulders (and chest) in front of men, but too shy to do it in front of the sun.

Cliche, compiled from the books and films, so firmly that no information received later, and even personal acquaintance with the real France is no longer able this way to change or at least significantly Supplement. And most importantly, do not want to change it. Real, not bookish France - the same dull, prosaic country, like all countries in the world; its inhabitants are most interested in is not love, adventure, and mysticism, and taxes, real estate and gasoline prices.

... France the Père-Lachaise cemetery looks quite lively and full of energy. Maybe the fact that it is the main necropolis of the country, and this place is similar to a filter: all the excess, impurity, irrelevant out in the land; the rest remains dry, the formula of national identity.

Russian people in General tend to love France, he's still the Soviet man has inherited. Spend now on the street poll - by which European countries should urgently launch a nuclear attack France, probably the only one will survive. To France no one claims. Somehow forgave her Russian people of Napoleon, while that of the Swedes rely on the mercy is not: someone will remember a much earlier Russo-Swedish war. Osadochek remained.