"Je ne trouve rien de si pénible que d'avoir à mener des hommes."

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I find nothing so painful as having to lead men. — Letter to his uncle Léonor Mérimée (29 December 1816), quoted in Œuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel (1866), p. xviii]