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The days of the Directoire (1910)

Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard), Abbott, John Colby · London, John Lane · leaf 183

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ng up one of the bundles in a menacingattitude, Eh, dame! continued she, je pourraisbien vous en vendre, plus que vous nen sauriezacheter, avec votre air aristocratique (Ah, marry!but I could sell you more of em than you are ableto buy, you with your aristocratic air ! ).iIn another letter of a… … SOCIETY UNDER THE DIRECTOIRE 127 But of all the speakers, the 07ie that pleased memost was Boissy dAnglas, who, in a long andemphatical speech, expatiated against the mischiefoccasioned by the number of gaming-houses atpresent in Paris,—more, he said, than had everbeen known at any former period…

French Revolution, 1795-1799 (Directoire) · Costume, French · France -- Social life and customs

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