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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 713 — XIII. OF FASHION.

Henri Van Laun translation

In the original il parle gras; parler gras means usually “to speak thick,” but is sometimes said, as it is here, of people who lisp, which generally in French is grasseyer.

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