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"Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays."

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his works. Same in Duc de Sully's Memoirs (1630). ("l'usage" instead of "coutume.") See Emerson—English Traits, Chapter VIII. Hazlitt—Sketches and Essays. Merry England. ("se rejouissoient" instead of "s'amusaient."), quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222-25

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Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his works. Same in Duc de Sully's Memoirs (1630). ("l'usage" instead of "coutume.") See Emerson—English Traits, Chapter VIII. Hazlitt—Sketches and Essays. Merry England. ("se rejouissoient" instead of "s'amusaient."), quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222-25