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The livre rouge, or Red book, being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France, and containing characters of the persons pensioned, anecdotes of their lives, an account of their services and observations tending to shew the reasons for which the pensions were granted

1790 Paratext Forms: Preface Paratext Functions: Hermeneutical, Meta-communicative English

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The livre rouge, or Red book, being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France, and containing characters of the persons pensioned, anecdotes of their lives, an account of their services and observations tending to shew the reasons for which the pensions were granted translation has paratext

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In the preface the translator and the editor claim they cannot vouch for the veracity of the book's contents. Especially the allegations about the king and queen and some of their circle seem exaggerated, they write. 'They can however assert, that the translation by no means exceeds the acrimony of the original'.