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When you pass from the text to the translation, you seem to travel from the burning mountain of Etna to the icy summit of Caucasus.

— Joachim du Bellay Défense et illustration de la langue françoise (1549)

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France, mother of the Arts and Arms and Laws.

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Rome as Rome's only monument is seen,
And Rome by Rome alone has conquered been.

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