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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7a" title="França – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="França" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francie" title="Francie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Francie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frankreich" title="Frankreich – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Frankreich" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li 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France, including its overseas territories, has the most number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/time_zone" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:time zone">time zones</a> of any country, with a total of 12. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg/220px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="359" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg/440px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_French_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="929" /></a><figcaption>France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. ~ <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re,2010_07.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG/220px-Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG/330px-Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG/440px-Chamonix_valley_from_la_Fl%C3%A9g%C3%A8re%2C2010_07.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3750" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>The French are wiser than they seem, and the <a href="/wiki/Spaniards" class="mw-redirect" title="Spaniards">Spaniards</a> seem wiser than they are. ~ <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a></figcaption></figure><p>]] </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg/220px-Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg/330px-Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg/440px-Tommy_Bank_Showing_Finger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="479" /></a><figcaption>First of all, let's dispense with this absurd stereotype that the French are rude. The French are <i>not</i> rude. They just happen to hate <i>you</i>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Dave_Barry" title="Dave Barry">Dave Barry</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_(Obverse).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png/220px-Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png/330px-Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png/440px-Badge_of_the_French_Legion_d%E2%80%99Honneur_-_Third_Republic_%28Obverse%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>France cannot be France without greatness. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg/220px-Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg/330px-Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg/440px-Adolf_Hitler_bes%C3%B8ger_Paris_%C3%A5r_1940.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2019" data-file-height="2524" /></a><figcaption>I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. ~ <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The French are wiser than they seem, and the <a href="/wiki/Spaniards" class="mw-redirect" title="Spaniards">Spaniards</a> seem wiser than they are.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, "Of Seeming Wise", in <i>Essays</i> (1625); Brian Vickers (ed.) <i>The Major Works</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 389.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,<br />Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_(poem)" class="extiw" title="w:Annus Mirabilis (poem)">Annus Mirabilis</a></i> (1667), stanza 39</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease<br />Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, <i>The Traveller</i> (1764), line 241. (Of France).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>, <i>Essays</i> (ed. 1765), 24. Appeared in the <i>British Magazine</i>, June, 1760. Also in <i>Essay on the History of a Disabled Soldier</i>. Dove—English Classics.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Une nation de singes à larynx de perroquets.</i> <ul><li>A nation of <a href="/wiki/Monkeys" class="mw-redirect" title="Monkeys">monkeys</a> with the throat of parrots.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel-Joseph_Siey%C3%A8s" title="Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès">Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès</a>, <i>Note to Mirabeau</i> (1789)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Providence" title="Providence">Providence</a> has given the French nation precisely two instruments, two <i>arms,</i> so to speak, with which it stirs up the world – the French language and the spirit of proselytism that forms the essence of the nation's character.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">Joseph de Maistre</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Considerations_on_France" title="Considerations on France">Considerations on France</a></i> (1796), Ch. II</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Tous les anciens peuples de la Gaule réunis en un seul peuple s’embrassent au nom des mêmes aïeux; et, comme ils ont une origine commune, ils vivront sous les mêmes lois et partageront les mêmes destinées.</i> <ul><li>All the <a href="/wiki/Antiquity" title="Antiquity">ancient</a> peoples of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" class="extiw" title="w:Gaul">Gaul</a> reunited as a single people embrace one another in the name of the same ancestors; and as they have a common origin, they live under the same laws and partake in the same destiny. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Marcelin_de_Fontanes" class="extiw" title="w:Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes">Jean-Pierre-Louis de Fontanes</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:%C5%92uvres_compl%C3%A8tes_(M._de_Fontanes)/Discours_du_Pr%C3%A9sident_du_Corps_l%C3%A9gislatif,_3_germinal_an_XII" class="extiw" title="s:fr:Œuvres complètes (M. de Fontanes)/Discours du Président du Corps législatif, 3 germinal an XII">Discours du Président du Corps Législatif, 3 Germinal an XII</a>”, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moniteur_Universel" class="extiw" title="w:Le Moniteur Universel">Le Moniteur Universel</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000839/00015/451j">№ 184, dimanche, 4 Germinal an XII de la République Française, 25 Mars, 1804. (Page 846 of the Port-au-Prince copy)</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>, <i>The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems</i>, "To a Republican Friend" (c. March 1848)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Frenchman comes <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">here</a> to make money, and that is about all that need be said of him. He is only a Frenchman. He neither learns our language nor loves our country. His hand is on our pocket and his eye on Paris. He gets what he wants and, like a sensible Frenchman, returns to France to spend it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/our-composite-nationality/"><i>Our Composite Nationality</i></a> (Boston, Massachusetts, 7 December 1869)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>France had been the cradle of anarchism, fathered for a long time by some of her most brilliant sons, of whom <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon" title="Pierre-Joseph Proudhon">Proudhon</a> was the greatest. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Goldman" title="Emma Goldman">Emma Goldman</a>, <i>Living My Life</i> (1931)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>France above all!</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chales_Maurras" class="extiw" title="w:Chales Maurras">Charles Maurras</a>, <i>Action Française</i>, 25 March 1938.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <i>The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler</i> (15 February 1945)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>France has no friends, only interests.</b> <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée de la France.</i> <ul><li>Translated: "All my life I have had a certain idea of France".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, opening sentence of his <i>Mémoires de guerre</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.</i> <ul><li>Translated: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, Proclamation, June 18 1940.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>France cannot be France without greatness.</b> <ul><li><i>La France ne peut être la France sans la grandeur.</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, <i>Mémoires de guerre</i> (1954)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O France, the time of reproach has passed and we have closed like a book; o France, the day of reckoning is at hand. So prepare to receive from us our answer! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Fawzi" class="extiw" title="w:Mohamed Fawzi">Mohamed Fawzi</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassaman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kassaman">Kassaman</a></i> (1962)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>France is the land of the inner psyche. The inner expertise. They are wonderful confessives. But when I was young what impressed me most was their high seriousness about literature. Often humorless. But high. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hortense_Calisher" title="Hortense Calisher">Hortense Calisher</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2576/the-art-of-fiction-no-100-hortense-calisher">Interview</a> with <i>The Paris Review</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>First of all, let's dispense with this absurd stereotype that the French are rude. The French are <i>not</i> rude. They just happen to hate <i>you</i>.</b> But that is no reason to have bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: "I bet that if we called this something like 'escargot,' tourists would eat it." Then they had a hearty laugh, because "escargot" is the French word for "fat crawling bag of phlegm." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Barry" title="Dave Barry">Dave Barry</a>, <i>Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need</i> (1991), New York: Fawcett Columbine, p. 131</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Which is the funniest <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a>? It's <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, isn't it? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen" title="Sacha Baron Cohen">Sacha Baron Cohen</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=C5P9J1wCgNM">"War"</a> (28 February 2003), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2"><i>Da Ali G Show</i></a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The creation of Modern France through expansion goes back to the establishment of a small kingdom in the area around <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> in the late tenth century and was not completed until the incorporation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice" class="extiw" title="w:Nice">Nice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Savoy" title="Savoy">Savoy</a> in 1860. The existing "hexagon" was the result of a long series of wars and conquests involving the triumph of <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French language</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culture_of_France" class="extiw" title="w:culture of France">culture</a> over what once were autonomous and culturally distinctive communities. The assimilation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gascons" class="extiw" title="w:Gascons">Gascons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Savoy" title="Savoy">Savoyards</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitans" class="extiw" title="w:Occitans">Occitans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basques</a>, and others helped to sustain the myth that <a href="/wiki/French_Colonial_Empire" title="French Colonial Empire">French overseas expansionism</a> in the <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">nineteenth century</a>, especially to <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="North Africa">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>, was a continuation of the same assimilationist project. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_M._Fredrickson" title="George M. Fredrickson">George M. Fredrickson</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031208020244/http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/race/Fredrickson.pdf">Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in France and the United States: A Comparative Historical Overview</a></i> (8 November 2003)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim country</a> anyway in about 50 years... I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Condell" title="Pat Condell">Pat Condell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://listenonrepeat.com/watch?v=nI5WoXpmPiM">Islam in Europe</a>, 2007-08-17, from YouTube, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dotsub.com/view/efa020f5-1243-4fbe-b8af-3a4bb2ab0fb9/viewTranscript/eng">transcript</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>-<a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Cruz</a> <a href="/wiki/Police_state" title="Police state">police state</a> exists. It's called France. <ul><li>Eli Lake, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/europe-brink"><i>Bloomberg</i></a> (2016)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We need to give priority to the French in their own country <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen" title="Marine Le Pen">Marine Le Pen</a> <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61166601">French election: Macron and Le Pen clash in TV presidential debate</a></b> (April 21, 2022)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our country, our nation is built by two institutions, the state and the <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">language</a>. A language whose epicenter today is no longer on these banks of the Seine, but probably much more towards the Congo River basin. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://palnws.be/2021/09/macron-haalt-uit-naar-zemmour-onze-identiteit-is-niet-gebouwd-op-bekrompenheid/">Macron lashes out at Zemmour: “Our identity is not built on narrow-mindedness"</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Colonial_Empire" title="French Colonial Empire">French Colonial Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">Kingdom of France</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=France&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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