English Explanatory Dictionary

l'état, c'est moi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Used to signify one's exercise of power in a dictatiorial, repressive and/or charismatic manner.

Word forms

l'état, c'est moi l'etat, c'est moi l'état c'est moi

Etymology

Borrowed from French l'état, c'est moi (“I am the state”), which apocryphally attributed to Louis XIV per an anecdote representing the tyranny of France before the French Revolution.

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