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Christopher Buckley on The History of the Social Faux Pas

The Secrets of Statecraft

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The French Aristocrats, Who Invented the Phrase Fopar

The french invented the phrase fopar, they are also pretty good at committing them themselves. David neven was, of course, a wonderful english actor, and in real life, a charmer and a gentleman down to his tiptoes. He's famously, an famously good fapa, isn't he? It's quite my favorite popas story. We call hat the david nivan de fet.

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