Jean François Paul de Gondi
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Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, memoirist, and an agitator in the Fronde.
Quotes
[edit]- Il n’y a rien dans ce monde qui n’ait un moment decisif.
- There is nothing in the world that does not have its decisive moment.
- Mémoires, II, as reported by Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography (2005), p. 180
External links
[edit]- Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Inc., 1899)