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Quote by Franz Anton Mesmer
Ma découverte interesse toutes les nations, et c’est pour toutes les nations que je veux faire et mon histoire et mon apologie.
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The speaker presents the discovery as something relevant to people everywhere, not only to one country or group. They also intend to write both a history of what happened and an apologia—a reasoned defense of their actions or ideas—for that international audience.
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- Founders Online, National Archives — Franz Anton Mesmer to Benjamin Franklin, 14 May 1784
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