Text & Translation
Le Critique
French source:
Nicolas Chamfort
le rossignol et animé de la toute puissance
des sots, écrivait: <Ah! la vilaine bête!> On
le disait critique.
The critic
English translation ©
Christopher Goldsack
singing, and animated by the all embracing power
of fools, wrote: "Ah the wicked creature!" He
was termed a critic.
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Le Critique
French source:
Nicolas Chamfort
The critic
English source:
Christopher Goldsack
Monsieur de Xantipe entendant chanter
Monsieur de Xantipe, hearing the nightingale
le rossignol et animé de la toute puissance
singing, and animated by the all embracing power
des sots, écrivait: <Ah! la vilaine bête!> On
of fools, wrote: "Ah the wicked creature!" He
le disait critique.
was termed a critic.
