| S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887. | | | | Marquis de Bièvre |
| | | | [A French littérateur and wit, born 1747; published several dramas, and the “Almanac of Puns;” died 1789.] |
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Your majesty is not a subject (Votre majesté n’est pas un sujet).
| | To Louis XVI., who said to him, “You, who make puns on everybody, make one on me.” |
| When told that the Abbé Maury had distanced him in a contest for a seat in the French Academy, he replied,—| | “Omnia vincit Amor, et nos cedamus amori” (à Maury). |
| VIRGIL, Eclogues, X., 69. |
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