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Souvenirs et Indiscrétions. Le Dîner du Véndredi-Saint

Par C. A. Sainte-Beuve de T Académie Française. Publiés par son dernier secrétaire. (M. Troubat.)

Note. — The Dîner du Vendredi-Saint was a dinner party given April 16, 1868, by Sainte-Beuve to MM. Taine, About, Renan, Flaubert, Robin (of the Academy of Sciences), and Prince. Napoleon. Although the dinner had been arranged for Good-Friday as the result of mere carelessness, the event was considered to have a political importance of which it was quite innocent.

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