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'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.
'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.
Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'Guizot's edition of Prince Albert's Speeches': 'I have read Guizot's Preface, which is just what it ought to be -- compact, careful, reverential'.