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"J'y suis, j'y reste" (I am here, I stay here) was a phrase attributed to Marshal MacMahon at Sebastopol in 1855, when ordered to abandon a captured position. Paul de Cassagnac adopted it as his political motto. ↩
Le journal d'une femme (1878) by Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) is the diary of a married woman torn between conjugal duty and romantic passion — a premise that would naturally captivate Marie. ↩