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Noblesse oblige
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Nobility obliges
Variant translation: there are obligations to nobility.
Comte de Laborde, in a notice to the French Historical Society in 1865, attributes the phrase to Duc de Levis, who used it in 1808, apropos of the establishment of the nobility.
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