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
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Alain Alcouffe