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Excerpt from The French Revolution From the Age of Louis of to the Coming of Napoleon
When Dickens, in the winter of 1859, essayed the little task of making a picturesque story, he requested Carlyle to lend him some books which the Sage of Chelsea had used in the production of his French Revol ution. Carlyle, making more noise in his silence-room than the rest of the world put together, replied with grim humour by despatching to Gad's Hill two cart loads of authorities. These supplied the novelist with sufficient facts and local colour to enable him to write A Tale of Two Cities.
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