Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… old friend who m I must mention, a Monsieur Pondevelle, author of the Fat puni, and the Complaisant, and of those pretty novels, the Comte de Cominge, the Siege of Calais, and Les Malheurs de l'amour. Would not you expect this old man to … She is the decent friend of Monsieur de Nivernois, for you must not believe a syllable of what you read in their novels. It requires the greatest curiosity, or the greatest habitude, to discover the smallest connection between the …
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