France [Theme] Page 6

Every city of the middle ages, every city in France down to the reign of Louis XII had their asylum. These shelters among the flood of punitive measures and the barbaric court of justice, novodevich of the city, were a kind of Islands beyond the reach of human justice. Any boat tied to him the criminal was saved. In another suburb there was just as much shelters as gallows. It was the abuse of impunity near the abuse of executions - two evils seeking to neutralize each other. Royal palaces, princely osobnyaki, and the main temples had the right of asylum. To populate the city, all of it turned for a while in a place of refuge. So Louis XI in 1467 declared a sanctuary in Paris.

Like the Greek, had the same gods, how many sources in his camp, or the Persian, who had as many goals as he saw the stars, the Frenchman counts as many kings, how many notices gallows!

- Napoleon, do not go to Russia!
But I am the greatest!
- Who told you that?
Is Josephine.
- So go on Josephine, Russia do with it?

I'm not a great French woman. George sand, Marguerite Duras (Marguerite Duras) and Simone de Beauvoir - that great French.

I like France, where everyone fancies himself a Napoleon, and here everyone imagines himself to be the Messiah!

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

France! France! Fantastic, amazing country! Mireille Mathieu, Jean Gabin, the Louvre, thin stockings, Alain Delon, Jean Marais, creme brulee, Camus-writer, "Camus" - brandy, Dumas, Dumas, Edith Piaf, "Chanel No. 5", Designer, Gascon, champagne. Love it!

India is about six times larger than France. And the population is twenty times more. In twenty! Believe me, if a billion Frenchmen lived in this crowding, it would flow a river of blood. Overthrown the waterfalls! Meanwhile the French, as everybody knows, the most civilized nation in Europe. And even in the world. So, be sure, without love, India ceased to exist

In France, the way to a man's heart passes through his mind.