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setting all English feeling and all natural principles at defiance, that it is only the bourgeois gentilhomme who will wear his dressing-gown upside down, "parceque toutes les personnes de qualité portent les fleurs en en-bas."[1]
Oxford, October, 1838.
- ↑ [Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Act ii. Sc. viii., apparently quoted from memory, as when M. Jourdain remarks that the tailor has put the flowers "en en-bas," the latter rejoins, "Oui vraiment. Toutcs les personnes," etc., without any "parceque."]
