human
A la mémoire de Lazare Hoche, le soldat citoyen, qui aurait été notre Washington s'il eût vécu.
gpt
It is estimated that there are more small holdings of land in France than in Germany, England, and Austria combined.
human
If correspondents could penetrate, as the writer has done, the almost inaccessible mountain villages of this country, and there discover the enthusiastic French forester at work, applying scientific methods to a work which can not come to complete fruition before two or three hundred years, they would retire full of admiration and surprise and carry the lesson back to the United States.
gpt
The story of French success in the exploration, the civilization, the administration, and the exploitation of Africa, is one of the wonder tales of history. That she has relied on the resources of science rather than those of militarism makes her achievement the more remarkable.... Look at Senegambia as it is now under French rule.... Contrast the modernized Dahomey of to-day with its railways, schools, and hospitals with the blood-soaked country of the early sixties; remember that Algeria has doubled in population since [the time of] the last Dey--and you will have a bird's-eye view, as it were, of what the French have accomplished in the colonizing field. E. Alexander Powell, _The Last Frontier_, New York, 1912, p. 25. Concerning the Arabs under French rule, Edgar A. Forbes writes:
human
The conquered race may thank the stars that its destiny rests in a hand that seldom wears the rough gauntlet.
gpt
What would you think of a proposition, if I should make it, of a family compact between England, France, and America?... What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you continually be employed in injuring and destroying one another?