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[log in to unmask] (Alain Alcouffe)
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Fri Nov 17 14:46:43 2006
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Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.  
  
Je voudrais...que le dernier des rois fut etrangl� avec les boyaux du  
dernier pretre.   
(I should like...the last of the kings to be strangled with the guts of the  
last priest.)   
  
Jean Meslier (1664-1729)   
Mon Testament, 1733   
Edited by Voltaire   
  
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Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du pretre, Au defaut d'un cordon  
pour etrangler les rois.   
(His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle  
kings.)   
  
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)   
"Les Eleutheromanes"   
Poesies Diverses, 1875   
Allusion to a sentence of Jean Meslier   
  
http://www.junkfoodforthought.com/quotations/R.htm  
  
  
Alain Alcouffe  
  
  
 

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