A Few Acres Of Snow
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Originally published | March 29, 1999 |
Authors | Robert Leckie |
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ID | 3084330 |
About A Few Acres Of Snow
King Louis XV of France was in conversation with Voltaire when he received the dreadful news that Canada was no longer French, but British. Aware of his sovereign's anguish, Voltaire spoke to him consolingly: "After all, Sire, what have we lost—a few acres of snow?" . . .