“What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don't you think? (22 September 1846)”

—  Gustave Flaubert

Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

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Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?

Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

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