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A typing error misled my text: of course it is Clemenceau who used the 
expression in 1890 when he was Member of the French Parliament, during a 
discussion about the play "Thermidor" - Victor Hugo had been dead for five 
years in 1890. 
 
What I was saying in the missing beginning of the message was that Victor 
Hugo, in his novel "Quatrevingt-treize", published in three volumes in 
1874, had firmly expressed the same idea - but with other words. 
 
Annie L. Cot 
 
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