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‖ plus ça change|plʏ sa ʃɑ̃ʒ|
In full, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. [Fr., ‘the more it changes, the more it stays the same’.] A semi-proverbial phrase, expressing the fundamental immutability of human nature, institutions, etc. Hence plus ça change-ness nonce.
[1849A. Karr in Les Guêpes Sér. 6 (new ed.) 1859 Janv. 305 [After comment on recent political events in France] Après tant de bouleversements, de changements, il serait temps de s'apercevoir d'une chose, c'est que c'est comme au cabaret:—cachet vert, cachet rouge, etc.—On change quelquefois le prix, quelquefois le bouchon, mais c'est toujours la même piquette qu'on nous fait boire.—Plus ça change—plus c'est la même chose. ]1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman 182 The mere transfiguration of institutions, as from military and priestly dominance to commercial and scientific dominance, from commercial dominance to proletarian democracy,..are all but changes from Tweedledum to Tweedledee: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. 1955Times 5 July 11/4 We have an uneasy suspicion that there is something to be said for the epic angle on history. After all, when boy met—or meets—girl, plus ça change. 1959‘J. Byrom’ Take only as Directed i. 8 ‘I don't like being out of date!’ ‘Plus ça change,’ I said. 1966New Statesman 2 Sept. 306/1 Meanwhile it is a sort of lottery whether a murderer is hanged or not... Out of seven capital sentences passed at the Winter Assizes 1871/1872, only one was carried out. Plus ça change. Ibid. 312/3 Browsing in my current bedside book, The Paston Letters, I have been struck by the plus ça change-ness of the human animal. 1969R. Blythe Akenfield 15 Where the strict village existence is concerned it is Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. 1970W. Garner Puppet-Masters i. 14 Plus ça change—! The present French government's simply following tradition. 1978Language LIV. 383 For both theories, then, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose; and, interestingly, the même chose of each turns out to be the même chose for both. |