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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

It was in
July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna
Pavlovna
Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya
Fedorovna.
With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man
of high
rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her
reception.
Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as
she said,
suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in
St.
Petersburg, used only by the elite.