Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom — now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done — and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. Christine De Pizan
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Oh my god, what an honour for the female sex. It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom - now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done - and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible. This quote is from Napoleon Bonaparte. He was talking about his wife Josephine's role in the restoration of France after the French Revolution of 1789.

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