"Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire. — La Fausse Maîtresse (1842), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. II