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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Source: Quoted in: The Goncourt Journal (tr. 1962), entry for 20 Feb. 1853. Karr was on trial together with Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, accused of writing articles offensive to public morals.
-- Alphonse Karr, ( 1808-1890), French journalist, novelist;

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