Frasi di Philippe Pétain

Henri-Philippe-Omer Pétain è stato un generale e politico francese.

Generale molto amato durante la prima guerra mondiale, fu a capo del governo collaborazionista di Vichy dal 1940 al 1944, in seguito al Secondo armistizio di Compiègne. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Aprile 1856 – 23. Luglio 1951
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Philippe Pétain Frasi e Citazioni

“[Sui soldati tedeschi nella I guerra mondiale] Li acciufferemo.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 674

Philippe Pétain: Frasi in inglese

“La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The earth, it does not lie].”

Speech (25 June 1940), quoted in Philippe Pétain, Discours aux Français, 17 juin 1940-20 août 1944 (Paris: Albin Michel, 1989), p. 66.

“The only wealth you possess is your labour…France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.”

Speech (August 1940), quoted in Pavlos Giannelia, 'France Returns to the Soil', Land and Freedom, Vol. XLI, No. 1, January-February 1941, p. 23 and Eugen Weber, 'France', in Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber (eds.), The European Right: A Historical Profile (University of California Press, 1966), p. 113.

“Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny…We are like mariners without a pilot.”

Statement (April 1936), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940 (London: Arnold, 1995), p. 182.

“My country has been beaten and they are calling me back to make peace and sign an armistice…This is the work of 30 years of Marxism. They're calling me back to take charge of the nation.”

Remarks to Francisco Franco in Madrid, Spain (c. 17 May 1940) after French Prime Minister Reynaud called Pétain back to France to raise morale against the German offensive, quoted in Howard J. Langer, World War II: An Encyclopedia of Quotations (Routledge, 2013), p. 157.

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