THE BLOG OF DISQUIET :Qweir Notions,an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since2008.
Saturday 16 April 2022
On becoming Russian.
During the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1 Gustave Flaubert (a real Mensch) was so ashamed of being French that he asked his friend Turgenev about the possibility of acquiring Russian nationality.
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