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PG-P.753.004
9 Jan 1753:13 (1255)
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated September 13. The
sickness of the Dauphin made the French really devout; they
prayed in earnest for the recovery of that Prince, and they
had good reason for doing so: . . . [4 lines] It were to be
wished that the calm had been of longer duration: But the
health of that Prince was no sooner restored, than the
contest between the parliament and the clergy began afresh:
The nation re-entered into its silly diversion, and fell to
laughing at both parties as before . . . [4 lines] Such is
the character of the French, when the King and their Dauphin
is well, they laugh at every thing else; they jest on other
people, upon themselves, even upon wisdom as well as folly;
and the diversion which they are so fond of subjecting every
thing to it, is their only and reigning passion. They talk
of a revolution of state as slightly as others would do of
the fall of a rope-dancer. . .
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