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Brewer's: Friend of Man
Marquis de Mirabeau. So called from one of his works, L'Ami des Hommes (5 vols.). This was the father of the great Mirabeau, called by Barnave “the Shakespeare of eloquence.” (1715-1789.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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