The phrase "Search for the woman» (cherchez la femme) popularized by Alexandre Dumas

In the novel "Mohicans of Paris' Alexandre Dumas phrase« Cherchez la femme »(in Russian it sounds like" Cherche la femme ") liked to say a police officer, convinced that the basis of any offense are invariably female wiles. Expression liked and was winged, spread throughout the world.

However, the Dumas came up with this phrase, but borrowed it from a prototype of his character: Gabriel de Sartini, French police officer. By the way, the first time such an expression can be found from the Roman poet Juvenal. In his poems there is a line, "is hardly a lawsuit in which the cause of the quarrel was not the woman».

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