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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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