French Merits

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or merits:

    “The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.”
    —Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)