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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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Never had there been fewer thieves in the Tuileries than on that day; for the courtiers had fled...The red cap was an honor to Louis XVI's head, and ought to be his crown." At this solemn moment the fraternization of the king with the people took place, and "the next day the same king betrayed, calumniated, and disgraced the people!" Manuel's rigmarole surpasses all that can be imagined.

"After this there arises in the panelings of the Louvre, at the confluence of the civil list, another channel, which leads through the shades below to Petion's dungeon...

The department, in dealing a blow at the municipality, explains how, at the banquet of the Law, it represents the Law in the form of a crocodile, etc."] [Footnote 2613: Moniteur, XIII.

93 (session of July 9);--27 (session of July 2).] [Footnote 2614: Moniteur, XII.

751 (session of June 24); XIII.33 (session of July 3).] [Footnote 2615: Moniteur, XIII.


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