French Ambassador

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“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)