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A Dissected Tale of Nose Folly and Foreign Policy
In a French tale translated here a clownish plowman grows a longer nose during an embassy to the court of Forteferre, inspiring the proverb his nose is a foot long to mark ignorance. The piece, prefaced by musings on talk and manners, pivots to European politics, warning of Bourbon power, French Spain alliance, and looming conflict with Britain amid famine and royal preparations.
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Forteferre
Plowman
Jonvest Dole
Fase
Grees
Fatalieas
Ethronia Ferenc
Garyy
Paris
Great-Britain
Europe
House of Bourbon
France
Spain
Vienna
Austria
Maria Theresa
Hungary
Lye
Portugal
Versailles
London
St.James’s
Austrian
Netherlands
England
Germany
Prussia
Peter
Russia
Bourbon
Saxe
Poperiin
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