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Years rolled on. France, long tossed among the surges of civil…
Quote byFrancis Parkman · 1823–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Pioneers of France in the New World (1865), Pt. II, Ch. 2 La Roche. Champlain. De Monts..
English (original)
Years rolled on. France, long tossed among the surges of civil commotion, plunged at last into a gulf of fratricidal war. Blazing hamlets, sacked cities, fields steaming with slaughter, profaned altars, and ravished maidens, marked the track of the tornado. There was little room for schemes of foreign enterprise.
— Francis Parkman
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