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1879–1936 France
Jacques Pierre Bainville (9 February 1879 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne – 9 February 1936 in Paris) was a French historian and journalist. A geopolitical theorist preoccupied by Franco-German relations, he was a leading figure in the monarchist Action Française.
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You will understand and know the German Republic better when it elects Hindenburg president.
Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.
Monarchist or collectivist, Germany will not change its nature.
In countries where, as in France, there is still an agricultural population and a majority of propriétaires, one need not fear social subversion.
In order to avoid being unsettled by Bolshevism and its substitutes, one must be conscious of the superiority of Western civilization.
Couleurs du Temps (1928)
When one has millions and millions of yellow and black subjects what a strange idea it is to proclaim the principle of popular self-determination.
L'Angleterre et l'Empire Britannique (1938)
Do people really think that everything will be finished when we evacuate the Rhineland? On the contrary, it is certain that everything will begin, that the territorial demands will follow.
May 7, 1919 has not erased the date of January 18, 1871.
One of the greatest mistakes that the Western world has committed, is to imagine that the colored peoples, in acceding to its type of civilization, would be drawing nearer to it.
Couleurs du Temps (1928)
Dictatorships are like a good many other things in this world. They can be the best, or the worst, form of government.
Dictators (1937)
The Rhineland liberated from Prussia or eternal war. The choice is ours.
For six years I have been writing...that the division of Europe into two camps armed to the teeth, one of which, the Triple Alliance, constantly resorts to intimidation, is bound to lead to the greatest European war since the revolutionary period. Well here it is.
Human history is a record of struggles between those who save and those who spend, between producers and consumers. These struggles have sometimes assumed the character of civil wars. It is the case of one tribe wanting to appropriate the more fertile soil and wealth of another tribe, or else within the same tribe, the have-nots wanting to expropriate the haves.
Paraboles hyperboliques (1931)
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