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:

    “Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.
    Philip Marlowe: Who’s he?
    Vivian: You wouldn’t know him. French writer.
    Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    “Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations
    And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence
    And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen
    Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about....”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)