French Defenders

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“Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.”
—Georges, French novelist, critic. L’Abbé C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)