Dear Pol,
It was Mauriac. And 'heureux' is the correct spelling.
od
Quoting "O Dochartaigh, Pol" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Colleagues,
>
> in his book 'The Tides of Power' Michael Balfour asserts (p.165)
> that a prominent Frenchman in the 1950s or 1960s claimed to love
> Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them. He
> quotes: "J'aime tellement l'Allemagne que je suis hereux qu'il y en a
> deux."
>
> Alas, Balfour does not name the prominent Frenchman. Can
> anyone help with a name and/or reference as well, or is this story
> apocryphal?
>
> Regards,
> Pól Ó Dochartaigh.
> Dr Pol O Dochartaigh
> Senior Lecturer in German
> School of Languages and Literature
> Faculty of Arts
> University of Ulster
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