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Modesty and dew love the shade.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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