“And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.”

— Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira
Que le peuple, qui l'enterra, pleura.
Le Roi Yvetot; rendering of Thackeray, King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 683.

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Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra, pleura.

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