On Conversation (1790) [ Practices ]
… I was told, before I left England, that I should find that French liberty had destroyed French urbanity. But every thing I have seen and heard, since my arrival in France, has contradicted this assertion, and … the charming purposes of conversation." … France … Conversation … Text: Helen Maria Williams , Letters on the French Revolution, Written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a Friend in England : containing, various anecdotes relative to …
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