Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Alain-René Lesage
Born: May 6, 1668
Died: November 17, 1747 (aged 79)
Bio: Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret, and his picaresque novel Gil Blas.
Known for:
- Gil Blas (1715)
- Turcaret
- The devil on two sticks
- The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane