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Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt

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Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt

Abbé Dominique G. F. de Rion de Prolhiac Dufour or de Fourt de Pradt (23 April 1759 – 18 March 1837) was a French clergyman and ambassador.

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  • No human power can now stop the march of a nation destined to exert its influence all over the world and perhaps to dominate it.
    • Des Colonies et de la Révolution actuelle de l’Amérique, 2 vols. (Paris, 1817), as translated in Robert E. Spiller et al. (eds.) Literary History of the United States, vol. 1 (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1948), ch. 15, p. 207
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