The pleading intonation, the rising gesture of French phrases, the pointed sound gathered in the nasal cavities before it is expelled : all are adumbrations of the " melodie francaise " as it was practiced in the second half of the 19th century and the early parts of this one.
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The idea of the American Declaration of Independence _ an idea that still lacks full realization _ that " all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights " is an adumbration of that original idea from which the French Revolution obtained its inspiration, one that has continued to convulse the unjust order of the world wherever it has been grasped : the fundamental rights of man.
