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LETTER
Introductory to a Series of Letters on the Present
Character of the French Nation.
Paris, February 15, 1793.
My dear friend,
IT is necessary perhaps for an observer of mankind, to guard as carefully the remembrance of the first impression made by a nation, as by a countenance; because we imperceptibly lose sight of the national character, when we become more intimate with individuals. It is not then useless or presumptuous to note, that, when I first entered Paris,
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