“Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.”

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Qui n'a pas vécu dans les années voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le plaisir de vivre.
Reported in Memoirs pour Servir a l'histoire de nous Temps by François Guizot, Volume I, p. 6.

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