Agrippa d'Aubigné

thumb| 'Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (8 February 1552 – 29 April 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. He was a noted Protestant during the French Wars of Religion. Quotes Qui va plus tost que la fumée, Si ce n'est la flamme allumée? Plus tost que la flamme? le vent: Plus tost que le vent? c'est la femme: Quoi plus? rien, elle va devant Le vent, la fumée et la flamme. Than smoke what swifter can ye name, Unless it be the lighted flame? What swifter than the flame? The wind. Swifter than that? 'Tis womankind. What swifter? Nothing; she with ease Outstrips alike flame, smoke and breeze. Sur l'inconstance de la femme, Petites Œuvres mêlées (1630), p. 169 (tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac, 1904) See also Jean de La Ceppède Keith Bosley External links T. B. Harbottle and P. H. Dalbiac (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian, 2nd ed. (1904), pp. 27, 76, 91, 125, 197, 230 Norbert Guterman (ed.) The Anchor Book of French Quotations (1990 [1965]), pp. 58, 59; originally published as A Book of French Quotations (Doubleday, 1963) L. L. Levinson (ed.) Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971), p. 320 Category:1552 births Category:1630 deaths Category:Poets from France Category:Protestants from France Category:Historians from France Category:Non-fiction authors from France