“A father's heart is nature's finest work.”

— Antoine François Prévost

Un cœur de père est le chef-d'œuvre de la nature.
Part 2, p. 205; translation p. 117.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)

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French novelist 1697–1763

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