Quotes about French Patriotism

Pierre Laval

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Engelbert Humperdinck

The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!

Theophile Delcasse

You do not understand the honor of France!

Baratier wanted to defend Fashoda at all costs as a matter of French honor. The Minister was trying to broaden his understanding of French honor and avoid a military defeat. A diplomatic solution was found that preserved everyone’s honor.

Francois Hollande

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

Eric Cantona

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

Marine Le Pen

It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.

Marine Le Pen

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

Coco Chanel

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

Jules Michelet

The day France remembers that she was and must be the salvation of the human race, when she gathers her children about her and teaches them France as faith and religion, that day she will once again be alive, and as firm as the earth itself.

Jules Michelet

Only France has the right to project herself as a model, because no people has merged its own interest and destiny with that of humanity more than she.

Brian France

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

Victor Hugo

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

Jean-Pierre Chevenement

We must return to the French the pride of being French.

The French have for over 1000 years had a nationalistic ego that was, compared to other countries, very extreme. Highly nationalistic Frenchmen have almost always felt that the French were not proud enough of their exalted role in the history of human civilization. De Gaulle was the most extreme but Chevenement was not too far behind.