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“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
“Une nation de singes à larynx de perroquets.”
“France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.”
“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.”
“La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.”
“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.”
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France is a unisex given name and an English, French, and Slovene surname. In French-speaking countries, France may be a woman's first name. In France, it may derive from an ethnic name for an inhabitant of the country; a variant is Lafrance. In Slovenia, France may derive from the personal name "France", a vernacular form of "Frančišek", Latin Franciscus ("Francis"). It may also be an Americanized spelling of the German given or surname "Franz".
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