"Que faut-il faire pour vous aider? Laissez-nous faire!"

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Original Language: English

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Alleged conversation between French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and a merchant named Legendre (1680), quoted in, among others, "The End of Laissez-Faire" (1926) by John Maynard Keynes