Comes from the mouth of French Emperor Louis XV.

The original sentence is Après nous, le déluge. The original French sentence lacks a predicate verb, so even people in the French and English worlds have two interpretations, just like Confucius's "The people can make it happen" in Chinese "It will have different meanings depending on the sentence break. :

Louis XV (February 15, 1710 - May 10, 1774), known as "the Beloved" (French: ''le Bien-Aimé''), the Sun King Great-grandson of Louis XIV 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 Louis XIV's 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.