“Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”

— Stendhal, book The Red and the Black

Jamais il ne s'était trouvé aussi près de ces terribles instruments de l'artillerie féminine.
Vol. I, ch. XVI
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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