Goethe à Valmy et Christoph Friedrich Cotta

The famous sentence that Goethe wrote thirty years after the battle of Valmy has been written in 1792 by Christoph Friedrich Cotta, a brother of Goethe's Editor. Without the napoleonien complement: "... and you can say you were there".

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Author Genton, François
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 7, 2026, 19:33 (UTC)
Created May 7, 2026, 19:33 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00918714
Language fr
contributor Institut des Langues et des Cultures d'Europe et d'Amérique (ILCEA) ; Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3
creator Genton, François
date 1989-05-07T00:00:00
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