Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken... no reasonable Frenchman has ever dreamt of annexing a parcel of German territory.


Letter to British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (25 February 1924), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Granduer and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940 (London: Arnold, 1995), p. 101.

Raymond Poincaré Quotes

Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken... no...

Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken... no...

Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken... no...

Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken... no...