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Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

  • ... love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

    • Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil,
    • in Marcel Cordier, La Lorraine des Ecrivains ()

Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French writer

(1706 - 1749)