Edict of Fontainebleau - Famous Huguenots Who Left France

Famous quotes containing the words famous, left and/or france:

“Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)

“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
—Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)