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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 504 — X. OF THE SOVEREIGN AND THE STATE.487

Henri Van Laun translation

According to the commentators, two insignificant newsmongers are supposed to be portrayed in Demophilus and Basilides, an Abbé de Sainte-Hélène and a certain du Moulinet, whom some think might have been an abbé or a magistrate, because instead of clothes he speaks of his robe or gown.

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