"Noblesse oblige. There are obligations to nobility."
— Obligation

January 1, 1970

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Comte de Laborde, in a notice to the French Historical Society in 1865, attributes the phrase to Duc de Levis, who used it in 1808, apropos of the establishment of the nobility.