The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Note 533 — BOOK III[496]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

There is a play upon words here which I cannot render: butor, in French means a bittern and also a booby, a block-head, a dolt.—T.

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