By the Way: Travel Letters Written During Several Journeys Abroad - Agness Greene Foster

If you can see but one place in Germany, let it be Nürnberg.

Je voudrais n'être pas Français pour pouvoir dire,—

Que je te choisis, France, et que

Je te proclame

Ma patrie et ma gloire et mon unique amour!

Victor Hugo, A La France.

Oh, to have been born elsewhere, that I might choose

thee, France, and proclaim thee my country, my glory

and my own!