The scale of the disaster shocked the French nation.

The army represents the French nation; if it is not won over, what can you accomplish that will endure?

This nation and the French nation swung left toward the close of the eighteenth century.

The revolution tore it to bits, and out of the rubble rebuilt something new - the French nation.

The French nation was hardly aware of what had happened.

Both claim to be keeping alive the cultural soul of the French nation.

These represented the "anti-France"; they could not in any way be admitted as part of the French nation.

The committee saw itself as a source of unity and representation for the French nation.

"Come, citizen ministers," he would cry, "we must earn the money the French nation gives us."

It is a generous act on the part of the French nation and deserves the thanks of all.