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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 257 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

Those men were the so-called “farmers of the revenue,” nearly all of low birth, and who formerly had been in some trade or business. See page 136, note 266, and page 137, § 15.

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