It is not an event, it is a piece of news.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord On hearing of Napoleon's death; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ce n'est pas un événement, c'est une nouvelle.

Original text (French)

More quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

In the Chamber of Peers (1821)

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ascribed to Talleyrand in The Hundred Days (1815)

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