SERS, a third member of this commission, was, before the Revolution, a bankrupt merchant at Bordeaux, but in 1791 was a municipal officer of the same city, and sent as a deputy to the National Assembly, where he attempted to rise from the clouds that encompassed his heavy genius by a motion for pulling down all the statues of Kings all over France.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
SERS has just cunning enough to be taken for a man of sense when with fools; when with men of sense, he reassumes the place allotted him by Nature.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
Excusez l'emportement du terme dont je me SERS.
"A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux"
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux