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Quotation from The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
“be kind enough to reckon every year of the Fronde as three years—that makes thirty; now twenty and fifty-two makes seventy-two years”
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Chapter XLIII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
The physician tells Mazarin he is dying by counting the strain of civil war as extra years of age.
Citation: "be kind enough to reckon every year of the Fronde as three years—that makes thirty; now twenty and fifty-two makes seventy-two years" — Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Chapter XLIII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-vicomte-de-bragelonne-q5)
