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M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose?
Philosophy Teacher: Yes, Sir.
M. Jourdain: Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.


Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1671) act 2, sc. 4


M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose? Philosophy teacher: Yes, Sir. M. Jourdain:...

M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose? Philosophy teacher: Yes, Sir. M. Jourdain:...

M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose? Philosophy teacher: Yes, Sir. M. Jourdain:...

M. Jourdain: What? when I say: 'Nicole, bring me my slippers, and give me my night-cap,' is that prose? Philosophy teacher: Yes, Sir. M. Jourdain:...