“The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.”

Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire.
La Fausse Maîtresse http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fausse_Ma%C3%AEtresse (1842), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. II.

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Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire.

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