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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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We have been notified that M.Dedeley will be visited at Acheres for the same purpose to-day.

M.de Lory has been similarly threatened...

Finally, all those people there say that they want no more local administrations or tribunals, that the law is in their own hands, and they will execute it.

In this extremity we have decided on the only safe course, which is to silently accept all the outrages inflicted upon us.

We have not called upon you for protection, for we are well aware of the embarrassment you labor under."-- The best part of the National Guard, indeed, having been disarmed at the county-town, there is no longer an armed force to put riots down.


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