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Letters on the French Revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a friend in England, containing, various anecdotes relative to that interesting event, and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F.

1790 Forms: Poetry Paratext Forms: Epigraph Translation Status: Integral French, English London URL

Contributions

Guy Du Faur Pibrac
author
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
translator

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Letters on the French Revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a friend in England, containing, various anecdotes relative to that interesting event, and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F. has translation has paratext

Summary (extracted citations)

p. 2: 'I hate these vile maxims of absolute sway, To Frenchmen too fatal a notion; From our laws all the life they have taken away, And all the good sense from devotion'.

Notes

The epigraph is a quatrain by Du Faur Pibrac, translated by Piozzi. Source text and translation appear alongside each other.