Excerpt from Mémoires du Comte Alexandre de Tilly, Vol. 1: Pour Servir A ̀l'histoire des Mœurs de la Fin du 18e Siecle
Il est à remarquer que dans cette seule na tion régnait une puissance suprême appelée mode elle tenait son empire de la légèreté, qui adopte sans examen, de la vivacité de l'imagination qui s'attache promptement à un objet, et du penchant à l'imitati6n.
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