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This pudding tastes of diplomacy: this is clear from its name, the laborious preparations it requires, and its complex flavor. I therefore dedicate it to the greatest of ministers, to the cynosure of the hour. The world, as is well known, continually needs an idol to adore; if it does not have one, it will create one, trumpeting his merits to the heavens. I, on the other hand, who am skeptical by nature and in part from experience, agree with the man who said: “Bring him to me dead, then we