Jonathan Fenby Quotes.

11. "I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

12. "They assure love from the beginning of life to its conclusion and, in the end, they govern our existence."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

13. "In 1945, Yvonne established an Anne de Gaulle Foundation for Down’s syndrome children in a château bought for the purpose outside Paris, and, after his daughter’s death in 1948, de Gaulle kept her framed photograph with him."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

14. "Cecil von Renthe-Fink, a tall Prussian aristocrat who advocated the creation of a European confederacy under German leadership with a single currency and a central bank in Berlin, was sent to mind the Marshal.183"
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

15. "Though the issue of collaboration, whether active or passive, remains a highly emotive matter in France, the fact was that, in the summer of 1940, most people in the unoccupied zone accepted the armistice."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

16. "According to de Gaulle’s account, Blum assured him of his interest in the soldier’s ideas. ‘But you fought against them,’ his visitor observed. ‘One changes one’s point of view when one becomes head of the government,’ came the reply."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

17. "the US continued to recognise Vichy and the Free French were reduced to operating in the US out of the office of the representative of the Patou perfume firm.143"
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

18. "French police and the SS worked together on round-ups in Marseille, classified as ‘moral cleansing’. In all, some 75,000 Jews would be deported from France in terrible conditions to concentration camps in eastern Europe. Only 3 per cent returned alive."
- Jonathan Fenby, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved