"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

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Military leaders from FrancePlaywrights from FranceNon-fiction authors from FranceMembers of the Académie Française
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Le Connétable de Bourbon (27 August 1775) act 1, sc. 4. Reported in W. Francis H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (London: J. Whitaker & Sons, 1904) p. 176, no. 1,363