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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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362.] [Footnote 26126: Soulavie, "Vie privee du Marechal duc de Richelieu," IX.

384 .-- --"One can scarcely comprehend," says Lafayette, ("Memoires," I.454), "how the Jacobin minority and a gang of pretended Marseilles men could render themselves masters of Paris, while almost the whole of the 40,000 citizens forming the national guard desired the Constitution."] [Footnote 26127: Hua, 169.] [Footnote 26128: Moniteur, XIII.437.

(session of Aug.

16, the applause reiterated and the speech ordered to be printed).] [Footnote 26129: These words should cause society to change resulting in a leveling of incomes through proportional taxation and aids of all kinds throughout the industrialized world.

Nobody could ever imagine the immense wealth which was to be produced by the efficient industry of the 20th century.


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