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S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.

Alphonse Karr

  • [A popular French novelist; born at Munich, 1808; published “Sous les Tilleuls,” and other works of fancy, after 1832; editor of “Figaro,” 1837.]
  • Let the assassins begin! (Que messieurs les assassins commencent!)

  • His answer to the proposal to abolish capital punishment in France.