The one had deeply investigated the religious dogmata, the other the political institutions; and the president Dupaty had long after awakened there enthusiasm for the new system of philosophy.

Bordeaux, in addition, was a country where the traditions of liberty and the _Roman Forum_ had been perpetuated in the bar.

A certain leaven of antiquity animated each heart, and lent vigour to every tongue, and the town was still more republican by eloquence than by opinion, though there was something of Latin emphasis in their patriotism.

It was in the birthplace of Montaigne and Montesquieu that the republic was to take its origin.
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The period of the elections was the signal for a still more obstinate attack from the public press.

The papers were insufficient: men sold pamphlets in the streets, and the "_Journaux affiches_" were invented, which were placarded against the walls of Paris, and around which groups of people were constantly collected.