I'm in the home stretch reading the epub of Will & Ariel Durant's
Rousseau and Revolution, volume X of
The Story of Civilization. Earlier today, I encountered this unforgettable sentence:
Quote:
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The Journal de Farts, the first French daily, began publication in 1777; the more famous Moniteur did not appear till November 24, 1789.
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I still have all the doorstop pbooks of The Story of Civilization on my shelf from decades ago - this had to be checked. That's supposed to be Journal de
Paris