Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... fait honneur quand j'étais jeune . ( I wish to honour in my old age an office which honoured me when I was young . ) Given by the COMTE DE RICHE- MONT ( 1398-1458 ) as a reason for not delivering up his sword as Constable of France on ...
... fait honneur quand j'étais jeune . ( I wish to honour in my old age an office which honoured me when I was young . ) Given by the COMTE DE RICHE- MONT ( 1398-1458 ) as a reason for not delivering up his sword as Constable of France on ...
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... fait la honte , et non pas l'échafaud . " ( Crime makes the shame , and not the scaffold . ) -Thomas Corneille , Le ... fait que le tour du Champ - de- Mars , et le drapeau tricolore a fait le tour du monde . ( The red flag has ...
... fait la honte , et non pas l'échafaud . " ( Crime makes the shame , and not the scaffold . ) -Thomas Corneille , Le ... fait que le tour du Champ - de- Mars , et le drapeau tricolore a fait le tour du monde . ( The red flag has ...
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... fait comte ? —Qui t'a fait roi ? ( Who made thee count ? ' Who made thee king ? ) Adalbert , comte de Périgueux , who had usurped the titles of comte de Poitiers and de Tours , received a message from the king , Hugues Capet ( d . 996 ) ...
... fait comte ? —Qui t'a fait roi ? ( Who made thee count ? ' Who made thee king ? ) Adalbert , comte de Périgueux , who had usurped the titles of comte de Poitiers and de Tours , received a message from the king , Hugues Capet ( d . 996 ) ...
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 30 |
FRENCH SAYINGS | 82 |
9 | 232 |
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Caesar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur Monsieur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM ἂν γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς