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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
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The witness sees on leaving the King's apartment "several women dressed as fish-wives, one of whom, with a pretty face, has a paper in her hand, and who exclaims as she holds it up, 'He! F..., we have forced the guy to sign.' "] [Footnote 1436: "Procedure Criminelle du Chatelet." Depositions 89, 91, 98.

"Promising all, even raising their petticoats before them."] [Footnote 1437: "Procedure Criminelle du Chatelet," Depositions 9, 20, 24, 30, 49, 61, 82, 115, 149, 155.] [Footnote 1438: Procedure criminelle du Chatelet." Depositions 7, 30, 35, 40 .-- Cf.

Lafayette, "Memoires," and Madame Campan, "Memoires."] [Footnote 1439: "Procedure Criminelle du Chatelet." Deposition 24.
A number of butcher-boys run after the carriages issuing from the Petite-Ecurie shouting out, "Don't let the curs escape!"] [Footnote 1440: "Procedure Criminelle du Chatelet." Depositions 101, 91, 89, and 17.

M.de Miomandre, a body-guard, mildly says to the ruffians mounting the staircase: "My friends, you love your King, and yet you come to annoy him even in his palace!"] [Footnote 1441: Malouet, II.2.

"I felt no distrust," says Lafayette in 1798; "the people promised to remain quiet."] [Footnote 1442: "Procedure Criminelle du Chatelet." Depositions 9, 16, 60, 128, 129, 130, 139, 158, 168, 170 .-- M.


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