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Updated: May 20, 2025

"Come, Guitant, speak, if you please, respectfully of these gentlemen," said Mazarin; "don't you know that I was in my youth a poet? I wrote verses in the style of Benserade " "You, my lord?" "Yes, I; shall I repeat to you some of my verses?" "Just as you please, my lord. I do not understand Italian." "Yes, but you understand French," and Mazarin laid his hand upon Guitant's shoulder.

Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After