plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
(Redirected from plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose)
French
editEtymology
editLiterally, “the more it changes, the more it’s the same thing”. An epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the January 1849 issue of his journal Les Guêpes (“The Wasps”). Possibly first said by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838). The plus ... plus construction is hyperbolic.
Pronunciation
editProverb
editplus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Descendants
edit- English: plus ça change