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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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155 (session of July 16) .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, II.69.

"Favored by you," says Manuel, "all citizens are entitled to visit the first functionary of the nation...
The prince's dwelling should be open, like a church.

Fear of the people is an insult to the people.

If Louis XVI.

possessed the soul of a Marcus Aurelius, he would have descended into his gardens and tried to console a hundred thousand beings, on account of the slowness of the Revolution...


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