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Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)

Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 257

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er mistrusts boththe good and the bad that are published touching the ministry, and other statematters. His business is to tighten a bandage, to adjust a plaster, and to put on leeches;but Jean lounges with delight in the wards, as others lounge on the quays and in thesun : he goes from pleurisy to… … Jeans person, not generally gigantic, we have already informed the reader is terminated by a cotton night-cap, which hehas the good taste not to stick on one side, butto wear straight, and slouched almost belowhis eyebrows. Without being a coward, Jeanscourage is not unimpregnable, and…

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