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