FRENCH: « On ne saurait faire d’omelette sans casser des œufs... » ‡
‡) “You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…”
NOTE: … Though attributed to Stalin, or one of his lieutenants, Lazar Kaganovitch, this was orig. fr. an 18th. C. royalist. François de Charette, defender of King Louis xvi., & a leader of a counterrevolutionary Vendée revolt, made this statement during his trial in 1796.
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