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Gently bend your neck, Sigamber; worship what you burned; burn what you worshipped.

— Saint Remigius

Mitis depone colla, Sigamber; adora quod incendisti, incende quod adorasti.

Original text (Latin)

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Source, in full

Advice to King Clovis (25 December 496) in Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum, bk. 2, sec. 31 (tr. Ernest Brehaut, 1916). French quoted in Norbert Guterman, A Book of French Quotations (1963), p. vi: "Adore ce que tu as brûlé, brûle ce que tu as adoré."

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