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"Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre" — https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu#D
by nicolaslegland 3y ago
"Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre" — https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu#Disputed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu#Disputed
- zombot 3y agoRichelieu was exactly the kind of man to have said something like this.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoI double-checked and thought I had indeed made a mistake in attribution here. However, while Richelieu is the most commonly cited as the source of the quote, the source is actually somewhat disputed, and has been attributed to various people (who may or may not have been (mis)quoting Richelieu themselves), including -apparently- Voltaire. So I get off on a technicality :-/ . Going forward, I do promise to be more careful with attribution of quotes in future.