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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

Maistre, Joseph. "On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions." Considerations on France, edited by Richard A. Lebrun. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 44.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 278.

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 8.

Voltaire. A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, edited by Nicholas Cronk, translated by John Fletcher. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Rabelais, Francois. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Dover Publications, 2016, bk. 5.

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 18, pt. 2.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 129.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 127.

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.