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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 336 — VII. OF THE TOWN.322

Henri Van Laun translation

The commentators hint at several magistrates as the originals of the Crispins, and imagine that the Sannions were the family of Leclerc de Lesseville, the descendants of rich tanners, who became ennobled for having lent 20,000 crowns to Henry IV. after the battle of Ivry.

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