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all, have taken a walk to the four palaces, which you may see, either with or without the statues and pictures, just as you choose⁠—

⸺⁠Then you will have seen⁠⸺⁠

⸺⁠but, ’tis what no one needeth to tell you, for you will read of it yourself upon the portico of the Louvre , in these words,

Earth no such folks!⁠—No folks e’er such a town As Paris is!⁠—Sing, derry, derry, down.

The French have a gay way of treating everything that is Great; and that is all can be said upon it.

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