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Charles de Gaulle

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How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
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Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?
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Les Mots du Général, Ernest Mignon, 1962

 
Charles de Gaulle

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