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European Noblesse: France
Yet we must hang on to this proposition of historical fairness with our very teeth, defending it against momentary appearances: European noblesse—of feeling, of taste, of manners, taking the word, in short, in ever higher sense—is the work and invention of France; European vulgarity, the plebeianism of modern ideas, that of England.—
Friedrich Nietzshe, Beyond Good and Evil, section 253 (p. 192).
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