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  • Vous pleurez et vous êtes le maître!
    • You weeping, and you the master!
    • Farewell (1659) of Marie Mancini to Louis XIV, at the sight of his tears. Madame de Motteville, Collection Petitot, 2nd ser., vol. 40, p. 11. — King (1904), no. 2964
    • Cf. Racine, Bérénice, act IV, sc. 5, Vous êtes empereur, Seigneur, et vous pleurez!—"You are Emperor, sire, and you weep?" (Bérénice to Titus)
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