I was never a believer in decline.

- Max Gallo

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

- Max Gallo

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

- Max Gallo

The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, …

- Max Gallo

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

- Max Gallo