List of Champions of the 1931 French Championships (now known as the French Open):
This was Jean Borotra (one of the Four Musketeers) second and last singles win at his native Slam.
Famous quotes containing the word french:
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)