“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

— Voltaire , book L'Ingénu

En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.
L'Ingénu, ch.10 (1767)
Quoted in The End, part 13 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
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