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Outline Of An Ambassador
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WHEN the Duke de Choiseul, who was a remarkably meagre-looking man, came
to London to negotiate a peace, Charles Townsend, being asked whether
the French government had sent the preliminaries of a treaty,
answered, he did not know, but they had sent the outline of an
ambassador.
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