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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Death
Details
Bereavement
Stories
Grief
Loudly
Whole
Husband
Forgets
Much
Fashion
Slightest
Modern
Mourn
Mourns
Forget
Detail
Distresses
Story
Distress
Dazed
Woman
Tells
Speechless

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