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Historical remarks and anecdotes on the castle of the Bastille

1780-03 Paratext Forms: Preface Paratext Functions: Community-building, Hermeneutical, Meta-communicative English

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John Howard
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In the advertisement Howard claims he smuggled a copy of the French original out of the country and had it translated to show his countrymen what horrors despotism can do in countries without a free constitution. Also reproduces the French editor's preface, explaining that liberty is dead in France, painting a bleak picture of despotism since the reign of Louis XIII.