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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.”
War and Peace, Book One, Ch. I, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude
The novel's opening line, spoken in French in the original by a Petersburg hostess greeting Prince Vasíli in July 1805.
Citation: "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes." — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book One, Ch. I, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q1)
Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.
