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The Lesser Bourgeoisie

CHAPTER IV
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Monsieur de Necker, an evil-minded Genovese, set the thing a-going.

Foreigners have always tried to injure France.

The maximum did great harm to the Revolution.
Legally Louis XVI.

should never have been condemned; a jury would have acquitted him.

Why did Charles X.fall?
Napoleon was a great man, and the facts that prove his genius are anecdotal: he took five pinches of snuff a minute out of a pocket lined with leather made in his waistcoat.
He looked into all his tradesmen's accounts; he went to Saint-Denis to judge for himself the prices of things.


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