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Old 09-29-2017, 02:32 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I'm no help, but I'm having fun. In an article in the Spectator in 1886 on the two translations, Chartres is described as "an insufficient English gentleman." I wonder where he fell short?
Perhaps because he really was John Smith Chartres, an Irish Englishman?
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