I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end ... France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc. (Charles de Gaulle)

I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end ... France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.

Charles de Gaulle

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