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Napoleon the Little

BOOK II
16/57

If you wish to come in, make yourselves agreeable." An attempt was made to frighten the English journals.

"If you 'discuss' us"-- decidedly they do not wish to be _discussed_--"we shall drive your correspondents out of France." The English press roared with laughter.

But this is not all.

There are French writers outside of France: they are proscribed, that is to say they are free.
Suppose those fellows should speak?
Suppose those demagogues should write?
They are very capable of doing both; and we must prevent them.
But how are we to do it?
To gag people at a distance is not so easy a matter: M.Bonaparte's arm is not long enough for that.

Let us try, however; we will prosecute them in the countries where they have taken refuge.


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