“If God grant me life, I will see that every laboring man in my kingdom shall have his chicken to put in the pot.”

— Henry IV of France

Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot.
As quoted by Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont in Histoire du roy Henry le Grand http://books.google.com/books?id=_Azvfrm9tcQC&q=%22Si+Dieu+me+donne+encore+de+la+vie+je%22+%22qu'il+n+y+aura%22+%22de+laboureur+en+mon+Royaume+qui+n'ait+moyen+d'auoir%22+%22poule+dans+son%22&pg=PA549#v=onepage (1661).

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Si Dieu me donne encore de la vie je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon Royaume qui n’ait moyen d’avoir une poule dans son pot.

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