----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]