Bordeaux is a ghost town in Thurston County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The town was abandoned in the 1940s after local timber had been extracted from the area.

Overview

Bordeaux is a ghost town in Thurston County, in the U.S. state of Washington. The town was abandoned in the 1940s after local timber had been extracted from the area.

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Notable quotes

“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
— Francis Bacon, "Of Seeming Wise", in Essays (1625); Brian Vickers (ed.) The Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 389.
“Une nation de singes à larynx de perroquets.”
— A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.
“France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.”
— Matthew Arnold, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, "To a Republican Friend" (c. March 1848)
“France was called the 'feminine nation'. It would be better to call it the 'androgyneous people'. It is the androgyne of Plato, the male and female being which grants the sceptre alternately to the mind and to the heart when it does not confer sovereignty, as often happens, to the simultaneous synthesis of both.”
— Charles Maurras, For a French Awakening (1943), p. 81
“La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.”
— Translated: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war".
“Our country, our nation is built by two institutions, the state and the language. A language whose epicenter today is no longer on these banks of the Seine, but probably much more towards the Congo River basin.”
— Emmanuel Macron - Macron lashes out at Zemmour: “Our identity is not built on narrow-mindedness"

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