An idea from Essays

Three men from Brazil, brought to Rouen, found two things strange. Tall armed men obeyed a boy king, and some people were stuffed with riches while others begged at their doors. Their homeland is known only secondhand, from a man who lived there and a poor interpreter, and too kindly.

From Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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