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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

— Honoré de Balzac A Woman of Thirty (1842)

Un enfant, monsieur, n'est-il pas l'image de deux êtres, le fruit de deux sentiments librement confondus ?

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