Share this page: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670) Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose. All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose. -- Act II, sc. iv. Par ma foi, il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien. Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. -- Act II, sc. iv. Ah, la belle chose que de savoir quelque chose. Ah, it's a lovely thing to know a thing or two. -- Act II, sc. iv. Jurons, ma belle, Une ardeur éternelle. My fair one, let us swear An eternal friendship. -- Act IV, sc. i. Je le soutiendrai devant tout le monde. I will maintain it before the whole world. -- Act IV, sc. iii. Share this page:

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