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 | | We know nothing of M. Girardin's private character: but, as far as we can judge from the French public prints, he seems to be the most speculative of speculators, and, of course, a fair butt for the malice of the caricaturists. |
 | | His one great crime, in the eyes of the French Republicans and Republican newspaper proprietors, was, that Girardin set up a journal, as he called it, "franchement monarchique,"--a journal in the pay of the monarchy, that is,--and a journal that cost only forty francs by the year. |
 | | He invented, we believe, the "Institution Agronome de Coetbo,"* the "Physionotype," the "Journal des Connoissances Utiles," the "Pantheon Littéraire," and the system of "Primes"--premiums, that is--to be given, by lottery, to certain subscribers in these institutions. |
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