The only wealth you possess is your labour...France will become again what she should never have ceased to be-an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil. (Philippe Pétain)

The only wealth you possess is your labour...France will become again what she should never have ceased to be-an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.

Philippe Pétain

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