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Sèbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794)

French playwright and conversationalist, famous for his wit, whose maxims became popular bywords during the French Revolution.
An illegitimate child raised by a grocer's wife, Chamfort was educated as a free scholar and then supported by a worldly Parisian society that appreciated his conversational genius.


a´ cuscienza jé n´cani ca non ni pó firmari quannu vulemu iri avanti, ma nuattri ci putemu ntuppari u´ mussu
l´unica cosa ca a Ddiu non ci fa mannari n´auttru sdilluviu jè ca u´primu n´arriniscíu a fari nenti