"I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles."
— Prosper Mérimée

January 1, 1970

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A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX, translated and edited by Prof. George Saintsbury (1906), page v