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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 456 — IX. OF THE GREAT.

Henri Van Laun translation

Davus is a certain Prudhomme, a proprietor of bath-and wash-houses, with whom M. de la Feuillade lodged before he became a favourite, in whom he had always the greatest confidence, and whose daughter he is supposed to have married after the death of his first wife.

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