“To die in Paris costs a pretty penny.”

Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.
Les Etourdis, Act I., Sc. II. — (Daiglemoni).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 56.

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Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.

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