Record ID:
294456
Accession number:
MA 4786.223
Credit:
Gift of David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1992.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 14.9 cm
Notes:
Probably written in the 1970s or 1980s.
Fisher attributes this quote to Belgian author Georges Simenon in one of the Maigret novels from 1948.
Part of a collection of ca. 225 typed and autograph letters, postcards, and notes from M.F.K. Fisher to David Pleydell-Bouverie. Items in this collection are described in individual records; see MA 4786 for more information.
Summary:
Repeating in French a sentiment about the corrupting nature of power.
Provenance:
David Pleydell-Bouverie.
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