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Letter: Futile debate
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20021001
Author:Peter Cogman
Sir: In "The great divide"Miles Kington, or rather his source, attributes to Anatole France the first use of the expression Vive la difference! In an article of 1884 Maupassant tells the same anecdote, but the comment comes from an anonymous intervention to a pro- feminist speaker in "un grand meeting"... in England. Clearly an anecdote that was doing the rounds in the late nineteenth century.
PETER COGMAN
School of Modern Languages
University of Southampton
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