 This is inspired by sentiment as much as by reason. The emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny.  The Michigan Alumnus - Page 171974Full view - About this book
 | Richard J. Barnet - Fiction - 1983 - 516 pages
..."have always stage-managed, their effects." The cultivation of mystery came easily to him. France was "like the princess in the fairy stories [or] the Madonna in the frescoes." No large-scale human endeavor could be anything but "arbitrary and ephemeral" without the seal of France.... | |
 | Daniel J. Mahoney - Political Science - 214 pages
...France. This is inspired by sentiment as much as by reason. The emotional side of me naturally imagines France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. 1nstinctively 1 have the feeling that Providence... | |
 | Julian Jackson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 192 pages
...of France. It has been inspired as much by sentiment as by reason. The emotional side of me imagines France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the madonna in the frescoes. as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. Instinctively I have the feeling that Providence... | |
 | James Tatum - History - 2004 - 254 pages
...way. This is inspired by sentiment as much as by reason. The emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. Instinctively I have the feeling that Providence... | |
 | Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly - History - 2006 - 828 pages
...transcend the national humiliations of the past. "The emotional side of me," he wrote, "naturally imagines France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny." This mystical view of history was based on de... | |
 | Ronald Tiersky, Erik Jones - Political Science - 2007 - 508 pages
...way. This is inspired by sentiment as much as by reason. The emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. Instinctively I have the feeling that Providence... | |
 | Dan Edelstein, Bettina R. Lerner - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 174 pages
...affect related to the idea of France is embodied in a female figure associated with desire, evoking "the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes" (3 ). If de Gaulle suggests a rapport that is both intimate and abstract, it is because he describes... | |
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