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TO THE

EDITOR OF THE PUBLICISTE[1].

Issy, near Paris, 25th Thermidor.

CITIZEN,

I read in your journal of the 25th instant, an article which announces an edition of my Memoirs, published in Germany, and in the German language. I did entrust the manuscript of my Reflections upon the Dramatic Art, and my own Memoirs, to a foreigner, and a man of letters, whom I greatly love and esteem. The intimate knowledge I possess of his principles and

  1. This letter was printed in this journal on the 28th Thermidor, 6th year.

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