2007-08-26 12:22:43 · 7 answers · asked by The Doctor 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr -
"plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
in a magazine he was editor of (can't remember its name)
2007-08-26 12:34:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The furthest back I could trace the quote was to 1924 in the book, "Paris, with Drawings in Color & Monotone" by George Wharton Edwards who refers to it as a "French proverb." Most attributions refer to it in this way and not to a particular person.
Okay, I kept looking it does appear in an 1855 book, "Dictionnaire du pêcheur" (online translation: "Dictionary of the fisherman") by Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
"The Oxford Companion to French Literature" by Janet Ewing Heseltine and Paul Harvey further notes that the epigram was written apropos of the Revolution. Thereafter he went to live in Nice to do flower farming.
2007-08-26 12:55:27 · answer #2 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This saying may be so old that no one really knows where it originated. I first heard it in French: Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.
2007-08-26 12:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by JelliclePat 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Kenny Chesney sings it in his song "Summertime".
"The more things change
The more they stay the same
Don't matter how old you are
When you know what I'm talking 'bout
Yeah baby, when you got..."
2007-08-26 12:52:28 · answer #4 · answered by Dakota724 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i did when i changed my kids diapers...lol but i think it comes from old testement...there is nothing new under the sun
2007-08-26 12:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by jim s 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if anyone really knows where the saying originated.
2007-08-26 12:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
corinne bailey rae in that song, i think its called "Put your records on"
2007-08-26 12:46:09 · answer #7 · answered by haylie! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋