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France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.

Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?

Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.

It is the fortune of France.

Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy!

One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.

Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.