“One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”

— Madame de Pompadour

Said while the French financial system was on the verge of collapse, as quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) by E. Cobham Brewer. Brewer states that this was sometimes attributed to the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, but that he was probably simply quoting Madame de Pompadour.

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chief mistress of Louis XV of France 1721–1764

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