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After me the Deluge ["Aprés moi le Déluge"]. When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care. Generally ascribed to Prince Metternich, but the Prince borrowed it from Mme. Pompadour, who laughed off all the remonstrances of ministers at her extravagance by saying, "Aprés nous le déluge" (Ruin if you like, when we are dead and gone).
après moi, le déluge lit. "After me, the flood", a remark attributed to Louis XV of France, referring to the impending end of a functioning French monarchy and predicting the French Revolution. It is derived from Madame de Pompadour's après nous, le déluge, "after us, the flood".
Determined to make her place at court secure, Jeanne Antoinette immediately attempted to forge a good relationship with the royal family. After the Queen engaged Pompadour in a conversation by enquiring after a mutual acquaintance, Madame de Saissac, Pompadour responded in delight, swearing her respect and loyalty to Marie Leszczyńska. The ...
The most famous remark attributed to Louis XV (or sometimes to Madame de Pompadour) is Après nous, le déluge ("After us, the flood"). It is commonly explained as his indifference to financial excesses, and a prediction of the French Revolution to come. The remark is usually taken out of its original context.
After the Flood (disambiguation) Après le Déluge; Après moi, le déluge; Before the Deluge; Deluge (disambiguation) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, a painting by J. M. W. Turner; The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, a painting by Thomas Cole
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