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è moi le déluge
[ a-pre mwa luh dey-lyzh ]
French.
- after me, the deluge (attributed to Louis XV, adapted from è nous le déluge “after us the deluge,” credited to Madame de Pompadour: said in reference to signs of the approaching Revolution).
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An optimistic reading of the king’s famous motto — è moi le déluge — refers to what will be, with any luck, a deluge of terrific films.
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“Après moi, le déluge,” King Louis XV of France is thought to have said, decades before the French Revolution.
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“It was always going to be a case of ‘è moi, le deluge,’” he added.
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A third, darker pandemic effect was a kind of fatalism, an è moi le déluge attitude festered in months of loneliness, as well as constant news of death and disease.
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I’m not going to say “Après moi, le déluge,” because I’m hoping to still be swimming in these troubled waters.
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