Christian August

Famous quotes containing the words christian and/or august:

“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)