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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's from a Victor Hugo novel : "Je dédie ce livre au rocher d'hospitalité et de liberté, à ce coin de vieille terre normande où vit le noble petit peuple de la mer, à l'île de Guernesey, sévère et douce, mon asile actuel, mon tombeau probable."

(I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble little nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, my probable tomb.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilers_of_the_Sea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago