Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 121
must not, however, terminate my sketch without adding, that the Rapin in-voluntarily follows the stream of regeneration which is bearing the age along towardsa brighter destiny : he is in a rapid state of civilization. At the present hour, he isno longer so unwashed, so uncombed, or so besmeared…
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