Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… Paris, Saturday 25 January 1766 I am much indebted to you for your kind letter and advice; and though it is late to … the Duke of Newcastle; and the latter, Madam e de Gisors, exhausts Mr Pitt's eloquence in defence of the Archbishop of Paris. Monsieur de Nivernois lives in a small circle of dependent admirers, and Madame de Rochfort is high priestess for … de Monaco, et d'Egmont, they have not yet lost their characters, nor got any. You must not attribute my intimacy with Paris to curiosity alone. An accident unlocked the doors for me. That passe-partout, called the fashion, has made them …
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