French Officers

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or officers:

    “When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That’s progress?”
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    “I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)