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The Remusats
April 2, 1885 issue

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The correspondence of Mme. de Rémusat has reached its fourth volume. Some families destroy all their letters; it is very fortunate that the Rémusats are not of the number. The letters of Mme. de Rémusat and his mother make a sort of perpetual dialogue; and in this dialogue one must give the first place to the mother: her letters are decidedly the best. He is a little too paradoxical, he runs too much after wit; she is perfectly natural, and she has the precious faculty of saying good, sensible things with a degree of charm, with elegance, a simplicity, which gives them their full value.

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LETTER writing; AUTHORSHIP; DE Remusat, Mme.; CHARM; PERSONALITY; LITERATURE
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