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NYEP(D.752.048
20 Nov 1752:21 (292)
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated September 13. The
sickness of the Dauphin made the French really devout: . . .
[5 lines] But the health of that Prince was no sooner
restored, than the contest between the parliament and clergy
began afresh: The nation re-entered into its silly
diversion, and fell to laughing at both parties as before. .
. [8 lines] They talk of a revolution of state as slightly
as others would do of the fall of a rope dancer.
Notwithstanding the real sorrow with which the illness of
the dauphin overwhelmed them, they could not forbear
laughing at the deposition of the Grand Visir, and making
themselves merry with his disgrace. . .
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