No matter how seductive a lieutenant may be, believe me, madame, he could never enter into a rivalry with you. His face, even when made sweetly rosy by champagne, still lacks the charm that nature has given yours.

Maximilien Robespierre in a 1783 letter to an unnamed woman of Arras (via

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The very heterosexual Robespierre trying to flirt with a woman.

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“Hot diggity damn, that lieutenant was so luscious, but you know what else is luscious. You. But so is the lieutenant”

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