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opinions, and things, have all the folidity and 

 juftnefs of the moft experienced as wellasdeep 

 reflexion. In a word, a more uncommon 

 pair does not exift; and, when the Duke 

 and Duchefs of Noailles attended them to 

 the plough and the dairy, they muft cer- 

 tainly be aftonimed ; nor have I any doubt 

 but the farmer and his wife have been con- 

 fidered as extraordinary a fpeftacle as the 

 farm* I forgot to mention, that M. la 

 Place is exempted, during his life, from all 

 taille, capitation, and other taxes, during 

 their life. The Duke de Richelieu fpoke 

 to the King, who immediately gave the or* 

 der for it. 



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