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Early Detroit
He claims the right to use brandy as a birth-right of Frenchmen. He indignantly asks: " Are we not subjects of the King even as others? In what country, then, or in what land until now, have they taken from the French the right to use brandy?"
He claims its use for purposes of health, and says: "Fish and smoked meats constitute the principal food of the inhabitants, so that a drink of brandy, after the repast, seems necessary to cook the bilious meats and the crudities which they leave in the stomach.
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