French Literary Quotes about "canaille"

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L'élite, c'est la canaille.

The elite are the scoundrels.

Henry Becque Paris 1837-Paris 1899 Notes d'album G. Crès

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Si infâmes que soient les canailles, ils ne le sont jamais autant que les honnêtes gens.

However infamous the scoundrels may be, they are never as infamous as honest people.

Octave Mirbeau Trévières, Calvados, 1848-Paris 1917 Le Journal d'une femme de chambre Fasquelle

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