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all that belongs to them, fairly by daylight—their gates, their bridges, their squares, their statues———and have crusaded it moreover through all their parish churches, by no means omitting St. Roche and Sulplice———and to crown all, have taken a walk to the four palaces, which you may see either with or without the statues and pictures, just as you chuse—

———Then you will have seen——

———but, 'tis what no one needeth to tell you, for you will read it yourself upon the portico of the Louvre, in these words,

[1]Earth no such folks!—no folks e'er such a town
As Paris is!—Sing, derry, derry, down.

  1. Non Orbis gentem, non urbem gens habet ullam
    ——————————ulla parem.

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