French Underground

French Underground may refer to the

  • French Resistance during World War II
  • French crime (see French Connection, Unione Corse, etc.)

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or underground:

    “He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
    —14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)

    “An underground grower, blind and a common brown;
    Got a misshapen look, it’s nudged where it could;
    Simple as soil yet crowded as earth with all.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)