François Mitterrand: Citations en anglais

François Mitterrand était 4e président de la cinquième République Française. Citations en anglais.
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“What I demand you is almost impossible, for one has to defeat our history. And nevertheless, if one does not defeat it, one has to know a rule that imposes itself: nationalism, this is war! War is not solely past, it can be our future, and these are you, ladies and gentlemen deputies, who are the guardians of our peace, our security and our future.”

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François Mitterrand

Lecture held at European Parliament (17 January 1995)

“Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.”

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François Mitterrand

L’Abeille et l’architecte [The Bee and the Architect] (1980) Chapter 6

“To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ‘’Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.”

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François Mitterrand livre Le Coup d'État permanent

[…] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part III

“What has begun in this evening will not stay for a long time, and because you represent the forces of the world of labour, you, forces of the youth, your victory is inevitable.”

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François Mitterrand

Château-Chinon (1974)

“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

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L’Abeille et l’architecte [The Bee and the Architect] (1980)

“In such countries, genocide is not too important…”

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François Mitterrand

Comments about Rwanda attributed to President Mitterrand by Philip Gourevitch in "Reversing the Reversals of War," The New Yorker, 26 April 1999.
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“There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.”

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François Mitterrand livre Le Coup d'État permanent

Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part II, ch. 1

“I believe in the forces of the spirit, and I won't leave you.”

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Last televised address to the French people, 31st of december 1994

“The man of the past.”

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François Mitterrand

Debate with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, characterising the latter (May 1981)