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PC.771.056
12-19 Aug 1771:1181, 1182 (240)
A fashionable French friseur, who had learned the polite
jargon and the foppish airs of the petits maitres, his
customers at Paris, . . . came to London, and resolved to
take advantage of the credulity of the English nation. . .
[disguises himself, pretending to be fleeing from duel, gets
into Duke of Newcastle's graces, introduced to King George
II.] Thus acknowledged, he resorted to all the most elegant
public place, and visited persons of the highest
distinction: He danced once at court with the Princess
Amelia, and, having run the gauntlet though all the
brilliant routs and diversions, and contracted debts under
that forged title to a considerable amount, his imposture
being detected by a foreign nobleman, he was forced to take
a French leave of the Kingdom.
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