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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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In both cases France has been made uninhabitable for them.

In both cases they are reduced to exile, and they are punished because they exiled them selves.

In both cases it ended in a confiscation of their property, and in the penalty of death to all who should harbor them.

In both cases, by dint of persecution, they are driven to revolt.

The insurrection of La Vendee corresponds with the insurrection of the Cevennes; and the emigrants, like the refugees of former times, will be found under the flags of Prussia and of England.
One hundred thousand Frenchmen driven out at the end of the seventeenth century, and one hundred thousand driven out at the end of the eighteenth century! Mark how an intolerant democracy completes the work of an intolerant monarchy.


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