What Does This Quote Mean? "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies" - Alexis de Tocqueville

I think this quote means that there are many stories told in history some are true and some are partly true. While some are not remotley true. It's the way the "pictures" are layed out and told that make them the original or copies.

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the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.