Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.
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One of Gautier's contributions to his collaboration with Jules Sandeau, Émile de Girardin, and Joseph Méry, La croix de Berny (Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1855) p. 28; Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989) p. 38