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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 260 — VI. OF THE GIFTS OF FORTUNE.

Henri Van Laun translation

Nearly all the great lords had Swiss doorkeepers. Petit-Jean, in Racineʼs comedy Les Plaideurs, says also: “Il mʼavait fait venir dʼAmiens pour être Suisse.”

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