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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

Born: February 27, 1857
Died: February 9, 1944 (aged 86)
Bio: Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Known for:
- Margaret of Angoulême, queen of Navarre
- The life of Ernest Renan
- Twentieth century French writers
- The life of Racine
- The French ideal