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"Après moi, le déluge" (pronounced [apas mwa la dely3]; lit. After me, the flood') is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV, or in the form "Après nous, le déluge" (pronounced [apae nu la dely3]; lit. 'After us, the flood') to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. 112 It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone. 3112 [clarification needed Its meaning was translated in 1898 by E. Cobham Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I parall and "Duin if un libe when mel<



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1898 by E. Cobham Brewer in the forms "When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care", and "Ruin, if you like, when we are dead and gone".[4] One account says that Louis XV's downcast expression while he was posing for the artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour inspired Madame de Pompadour to say: "Il ne faut point s'affliger; vous tomberiez malade. Après nous, le déluge."[1][note 1] Another account states that the Madame used the expression to laugh off ministerial objections to her extravagances.[4] The phrase is also often seen as foretelling the French Revolution and the corresponding ruin brought to France.[5][better source needed] The phrase is believed to date from after the 1757 Battle of Rossbach, which was disastrous for the French.[1]