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Are you knowledgeable about these quotes from kings?

2022-01-09T07:20:52.394Z


QUIZ - Le Figaro offers you a test on the witticisms of our monarchs. Will you get 10/10?


"Knowing how to conceal is the knowledge of kings"

, affirmed Cardial Richelieu.

"Accuracy is the politeness of kings"

, declaimed Louis XIII.

"Good kings are slaves and their peoples are free"

, stated Marie Leszczynska.

These sentences made history.

They had their little effect when they were spoken.

And have remained engraved in the marble of posterity.

If

"the earth has fewer kings than the sky has gods"

, according to a quote from Racine, the latter sometimes demonstrated linguistic dexterity.

Assured, Henry IV had this adage:

"The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend."

Royal, François Ier declared seven days after his coronation:

"Because such is our good pleasure"

.

Bursting with power and power, Louis XIV maintained:

"When you can do whatever you want, it is not easy to want only what you owe."

Three days after the feast of Kings,

Le Figaro

offers you a test on the tastiest royal quotes, whether proven or legendary.

Will you get 10/10?

Source: lefigaro

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