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Sire, I owe everything to you, but I think I can in some measure repay you by giving you Colbert.

— Cardinal Mazarin When dying—to Louis XIV. — Latham (1906)

Sire, je vous dois tout, mais je crois m'acquitter en quelque manière en vous donnant Colbert.

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