“Look for the woman!”

Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Les Mohicans de Paris, http://www.archive.org/details/lesmohicansdepa02dumagoog, 2009-08-07, I, 1871, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 232]
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)

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Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!

Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)

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