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Charles de Remusat : 'French Essays on Literature'

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end italics] [sic] -- so clever they are! Charles de Remusat describes the French of the eighteenth century as "Des gens qui ne lisaient qu'afin de pouvoir parler". Could anything be more apt?'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book
  

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