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Mike Dana
Jan 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/23/97
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Bryn Schwormstedt wrote:
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> Can anyone help me with this question, which is in context with the
> French Revolution :
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> Who said, "After me the flood"?
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> Bryn Schwormstedt
> br...@iafrica.com
"After me, the deluge." --Louis XV, >World Almanac and Book of Facts
(Louis XV died 19 years before the Revolution)
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Mike Dana
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"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt" -- Julius Ceasar
Bryn Schwormstedt
Jan 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/23/97
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Eric Larrey
Jan 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/24/97
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It is not sure at all that Louis XV said "After me, the deluge." It gives a
very bad aspect to his person. The conditions in which he said this possible
sentence are often not mentionned and coukd explain it.
louis XV was not a cmpletely bad king !!
Eric Larrey
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