"Louvre inauguration speech by Mitterrand"

“There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.”

“I believe in the forces of the spirit, and I won't leave you.”

“In such countries, genocide is not too important…”

“French President Poll”

“A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.”

“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”