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NYJ-N.767.204
26 Nov 1767:12 (1299 Supplement)
Extract of a letter from Paris, August 29. "A foreign Baron,
struck some days since at the opera with the soft attitudes
and wanton gestures of Mademoiselle Allard, wrote to her the
following billet: `Madam, I am a foreigner, and of course
little accustomed to French gallantry. . . [3 lines] I offer
you my hand if you will quit the theatre, and cut capers
only for me. . . [3 more lines of his letter, her reply,
further correspondence, ending with his threat to "blow her
brains out", and then his own because of her refusal.]
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