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L'État, c'est moi (English: "I am the state", lit. ' the state, it is me ' ) is an apocryphal saying attributed to Louis XIV , King of France and Navarre . It was allegedly said on 13 April 1655 before the Parlement of Paris . [ 1 ]
lit. "wit of the stairs"; a concise, clever statement you think of too late, that is, on the stairs leaving the scene. The expression was created by French philosopher Denis Diderot. l'État, c'est moi! lit. "I am the state!" — attributed to the archetypal absolute monarch, Louis XIV of France. étude
Louis XIV Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 King of France (more...) Reign 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 Coronation 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral Predecessor Louis XIII Successor Louis XV Regent Anne of Austria (1643–1651) Chief ministers See list Cardinal Mazarin (1643–1661) Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1661–1683) The Marquis of Louvois (1683–1691) Born (1638-09-05) 5 September 1638 ...
Après moi, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ mwa lə delyʒ]; lit. ' After me, the flood ') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "Après nous, le déluge" (pronounced [apʁɛ nu lə delyʒ]; lit. ' After us, the flood ') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite.
The phrase is also used in teaching and remembering the sounds of the French vowel a; La plume de ma tante contains three instances of a that use two different pronunciations. Other limited-use phrases used as pronunciation guides include: Le petit bébé est un peu malade ("the little baby is slightly ill"), which contains six variants of e ...
The examples are taken from French, which uses the disjunctive first person singular pronoun moi. The (sometimes colloquial) English translations illustrate similar uses of me as a disjunctive form. in syntactically unintegrated disjunct (or "dislocated") positions; Les autres s'en vont, mais moi, je reste. The others are leaving, but me, I'm ...
The French form of the phrase is far better known in English than the translated version. Maybe a cute anecdote will illustrate: back in the 90s, I worked for an American African magazine, we had a cover story on the recent authoritarian tendencies of Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi. The title imposed itself irresistibly: "L'Etat c'est Moi".
The Secrétaire d'État à la Maison du Roi was also in charge of the policing and general administration of French provinces (at first those with provincial estates or "pays d'état", and eventually over all other internal provinces), except for border regions (which were supervised by the Department of War).