"Toutes les histoires anciennes, comme le disait un de nos beaux esprits, ne sont que des fables convenues."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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Ancient histories, as one of our wits has said, are but fables that have been agreed upon. — Jeannot et Colin (1764)