"This is what you have to do if you want the people to build statues of you on horseback in the villages you come from." Valery Giscard d'Estaing was trying to stiffen the resolve of his 12 colleagues on the committee that was drafting a constitution for the European Union. He was doubtless joking, but the joke made a serious point. European unity has been driven forward by people such as Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Jacques Delors and Mr Giscard d'Estaing himself (all of them French, as it happens).
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机译：“如果您希望人们在您来自的村庄里骑马建造您的雕像，这就是您要做的。”瓦莱里·吉斯卡·德斯塔因（Valery Giscard d'Estaing）试图在起草欧盟宪法的委员会中增强12位同事的决心。他无疑是在开玩笑，但这个笑话说得很对。 Jean Monnet，Robert Schuman，Jacques Delors和Giscard d'Estaing先生本人（当时都是法国人）推动了欧洲团结。
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