by
Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort
L'Évêque d'Autun
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Monseigneur d'Autun était gros, gros
monstrueusement gros; il avait l'air créé et mis
au monde pour faire voir jusqu'où peut aller
la peau humaine.
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Bishop of Autun ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The Bishop of Autun
Language: English  after the French (Français)
His Grace of Autun was big, big
monstrously fat; he seemed to have been created and brought
into the world to show how far can be stretched
human skin.
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