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Quʹen dit Metra (Louis XVI.)? Metra was a noted news-vender of Paris before the Revolution—a notability with a cocked hat, who went about with his hands folded behind his back.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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