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Updated: June 13, 2025

"Pardon, monsieur, vos ancetres etaient Catholiques jusqu'au temps de Henri Huit." "Mais il y a trois cents ans depuis le temps de Henri Huit." "Eh bien; chacun a ses convictions; vous ne parlez pas contre la religion?" "Jamais, jamais, monsieur, j'ai un respect enorme pour l'eglise Catholique." "Monsieur, faites comme chez vous; allez ou vous voulez; vous trouverez toutes les portes ouvertes.

Samuel Butler - Selections from Previous Works: and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals

The following passages, from a speech of Dubois Crance, who may be supposed a competent judge, at once furnish an idea of Robespierre's oratory, exhibit a leading feature in his character, and expose some of the arts by which the revolutionary despotism was maintained: "Rapportant tout a lui seul, jusqu'a la patrie, il n'en parla jamais que pour s'en designer comme l'unique defenseur: otez de ses longs discours tout ce qui n'a rapport qu'a son personnel, vous n'y trouverez plus que de seches applications de prinipes connus, et surtout de phrases preparees pour amener encore son eloge.

An English Lady - A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794: Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General: and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

She unlocked a heavy, white-washed door into a dusty, dim vestibule, and then proceeded to lock me in, pointing to another door at the farther end, saying, as she returned to her savory stew pot on the iron stove, "Montez, Montez, vous trouverez l'escalier." The heavy door swung to by a weight on a cord, and I was at the bottom step of the winding stairway of the tower.

George Wharton Edwards - Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders

"Yes, sir," he answered, saluting me as he had done the lieutenant on his entrance. "Two-and-twenty years, sir." "You don't mind my talking to the fellow?" I asked the lieutenant, reverting to French again. "Pas du tout," said the lieutenant. "Vous le trouverez bien bête, je vous promis." "How long have you been in the Austrian service?" "Not in the service at all, sir. General's groom, sir."

David Christie Murray - In Direst Peril

"How are the roads, sir?" "Much cut up, and in one place a torrent has carried away part of a bridge." "I knew it, I knew it," said he, bitterly; "it is too late. Duroc," cried he, while the words seemed to come forth with a hissing sound, "did I not tell you, 'Grattez le Russe, et vous trouverez le Tartare!"

Charles James Lever - Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II