Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... mourir le roi de Paris ! " ( Madam , this morning I have become king of France ; I have caused the death of the king of Paris ! ) Catherine , stupefied , replied : " Vous avez fait " mourir le duc de Guise ! Dieu " veuille que cette ...
... mourir le roi de Paris ! " ( Madam , this morning I have become king of France ; I have caused the death of the king of Paris ! ) Catherine , stupefied , replied : " Vous avez fait " mourir le duc de Guise ! Dieu " veuille que cette ...
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... mourir en eau douce un général des galères ? ( Gently , Jean le Blanc , do you want to drown in fresh water a general of the galleys ? ) Remark made by the DUC DE VIVONNE ( 1636-88 ) to the white horse ( Jean le Blanc ) he rode at the ...
... mourir en eau douce un général des galères ? ( Gently , Jean le Blanc , do you want to drown in fresh water a general of the galleys ? ) Remark made by the DUC DE VIVONNE ( 1636-88 ) to the white horse ( Jean le Blanc ) he rode at the ...
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... mourir sur son banc de quart . ( A_French admiral should die at his post ) -Dying words of Vice- Admiral Francois Paul de Brueys d'Aigal- liers ( 1753-98 ) on board L'Orient at the battle of the Nile , Aug. 1 , 1798. See Un roi de ...
... mourir sur son banc de quart . ( A_French admiral should die at his post ) -Dying words of Vice- Admiral Francois Paul de Brueys d'Aigal- liers ( 1753-98 ) on board L'Orient at the battle of the Nile , Aug. 1 , 1798. See Un roi de ...
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 30 |
FRENCH SAYINGS | 82 |
GERMAN 99 | 190 |
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar 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 qu'un 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