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“—They order, said I, this matter better in France—” (27). So Laurence Sterne, in 1768, famously opens his A Sentimental JourneyThrough France and Italy. At least Sterne goes to France, crossing as he does so the borders between fact and fiction, memory andimagination, self and “self.” “—You have been in France? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph inthe world.—Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That one and twenty miles sailing, for ‘tis absolutely no furtherfrom Dover to Calais, should give a man these rights—I’ll look into them.”