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Foreign News January 13, 1764

The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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A French gentleman in Paris writes satirically about the influx of English nobility and visitors spending money in France, while France exports servants and goods to England, implying English funds could finance another war.

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LONDON, Nov. 2. Extract of a Letter from a French Gentleman at Paris, to his friend in London.

Your countrymen continue to pour in upon us as fast as the pacquet-boats can bring them over. Among others imported hither, we can number three Dukes, five Viscounts, seven Baronets, nine simple Knights, as I think you call them, one of them no less than an Alderman of the City of London, an Irish Bishop disguised in scarlet, and I don't know how many my Lord's Anglois, as we from our extreme politesse title every one who comes over here to spend their Money with us. In return, we have exported to your country friers, marchandes de robes, maitres d'hotel, cuisinies, &c. in abundance. The good people of England are very busy in furnishing the French with money to begin another war, as appears by the numbers of them that daily arrive at Paris, where they get the title of Lord Angle, for a few livres; and in a few minutes are sneered at by the sycophants that confer it.

What sub-type of article is it?

Economic Political

What keywords are associated?

English Visitors Paris French Exports England Tourism Spending War Funding Satire

Where did it happen?

Paris

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Paris

Event Date

November 2

Event Details

English visitors including three Dukes, five Viscounts, seven Baronets, nine Knights, an Alderman, and an Irish Bishop arrive in Paris, spending money and receiving titles like 'Lord Anglois'. France exports friars, dressmakers, hotel masters, cooks, etc., to England. Satirically, this influx furnishes France with funds for another war, with titles conferred for a few livres and then mocked.

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