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"The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.48, The Floating Press
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