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Use this tag for questions about claims based in France, or limited to France.

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Did Talleyrand say "If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another"?

It appears in an 1886 work titled Chapters in European History, Volume I by William Samuel Lilly. I don’t see it anywhere else (at least in the form worded this way, which is the French version of wha …
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