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Bordeaux
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Bordeaux is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (masculine) or "Bordelaises" (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
“Une nation de singes à larynx de perroquets.”
“France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.”
“France was called the 'feminine nation'. It would be better to call it the 'androgyneous people'. It is the androgyne of Plato, the male and female being which grants the sceptre alternately to the mind and to the heart when it does not confer sovereignty, as often happens, to the simultaneous synthesis of both.”
“La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.”
“Our country, our nation is built by two institutions, the state and the language. A language whose epicenter today is no longer on these banks of the Seine, but probably much more towards the Congo River basin.”
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