(29 August 1709 – 16 June 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert, the humorous story of a parrot and a convent of nuns.
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La douleur est un siècle, et la mort un moment.
Mais Paris guérit tout et les absents ont tort.
Finding melancholy In pleasure's bosom hidden.
'Tis the gods' fault that made her such a fool.
Dans mainte auteur de science profonde J'ai lu que l'on perd à trop courir le monde; Très rarement en devient-on meilleur: Un sort errant ne conduit qu'à l'erreur.
The eagle in one house is in the next a fool.
Ah! what a dangerous gift is a great name! How happier far a lot unknown to fame!
The wit one aims at spoils the wit one has by nature.