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Quotation from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
“He felt about France what Pericles felt of Athens--unique value in her, nothing else mattering”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter III: The Conference (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776)
From Keynes's portrait of the French premier Georges Clemenceau, whose single aim at Paris was to secure France against Germany.
Citation: "He felt about France what Pericles felt of Athens--unique value in her, nothing else mattering" — John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter III: The Conference (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776). (id keynes-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace-q3)
Portrait: Keynes 1933, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
