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CHAPTER VIII
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The dark man at the right spoke.
"The great Napoleon was right," said he.

"He never ceased to prove how much he dreaded woman at any juncture of public affairs.
Indeed, he said that all the public places of the government should be closed to them, that they should be set apart and distinguished from the managers of affairs." "And so do we say it!" broke in the leader.

"With all my heart, I say it." The tall man bowed, "It was the idea of Napoleon that woman should be distinguished always by a veil and gown, a uniform of unworthiness and of danger.

True, Napoleon based his ideas on his studies in the Orient.

Us he accused of treating woman much too well.


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