Famous quotes containing the words french and/or ambassador:
“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)