Word: florianet
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...Significance. "What pleasure," asked "the last of the French giants," of his secretary, "can you find in picking up the careless words that trickle down my old beard?" The secretary knew what Florianet and the Abbé Ledieu (French Boswells) had done for their masters, Voltaire and Bossuet. The formal biographers, already marshaling facts, will come here to make their pictures mobile...
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