"Even if the floods are raging after I die" means that after I die, I don't care what happens next, even if the floods are raging, it has nothing to do with me. There are many versions, including "After I die, I won't care about the floods" and "After I die, I won't care about the floods", which have the same meaning.

This is what the French Emperor Louis XV once said. A saying that is regarded as a golden rule by hedonists.

The original French text of the sentence "After me, the flood" is "Après moi, le déluge" (English: After me, the flood), but it means "After me, the flood" , there will be huge floods", which is very different from the well-known "after I die, there will be huge floods".

Another original French version - "Après nous, le déluge" (English: After us, The flood), which means "After we die, there will be a flood." This version is also very popular and even authoritative. In fact, this sentence was not said by Louis XV, but by his mistress Madame de Pompadour, who was the real original author.

The phrase "I won't care about the flood after I die" that we often quote is because the Chinese people made changes on their own, and then framed it for a dead ghost Louis XV. It's like misrepresenting the famous saying of Confucius as "repaying evil with kindness and repaying kindness with kindness" as "repaying evil with kindness".

Extended information:

Louis XV (February 15, 1710 - May 10, 1774), known as "the beloved" (French: ''le Bien-Aimé''), great-grandson of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and son of the Duke of Burgundy. Reigned as King of France from 1715 to 1774.

He miraculously continued the dying family, and he was loved by the French people in the early years of his reign. However, his inability to reform the French monarchy and his policy of appeasement in Europe cost him the support of his people. And after his death he became one of the most unpopular kings of France.

In the later period of Louis XV's reign, court life was corrupt, and the economic problems during the Louis XIV period were not well resolved. Although he survived a catastrophe as a child, he ultimately failed to escape the disease and died of smallpox in 1774.

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