I wish I could get my hands on the original essay .. but here is a summary taken from
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Diderot is also the author of a charming essay called Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown, in which he describes how the gift of a beautiful scarlet dressing gown plunges him into debt and turns [...]
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