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Ranskan suurlähettilään Bassompierren muistelmissa kerrottu tarina, joka kertoo hänen kuolleen brasero-lämmittimen aiheuttamaan kuumuuteen, koska sopivaa palvelijaa ei ollut paikalla sen poisviemiseen, on humoristinen tapa liiotella hovin erittäin virallista etikettiä.
The story told in the memoirs of the French ambassador Bassompierre, that he was killed by the heat of a brasero (a pan of hot charcoal), because the proper official to take it away was not at hand, is a humorous exaggeration of the formal etiquette of the court.
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