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65-68.)] [Footnote 2323: "Correspondance de Mirabeau et du Comte de la Marck,"II., 74 (Letter of Mirabeau to the King, July 3, 1790): "Compare the new state of things with the ancient regime....

One portion of the acts of the national assembly (and that the largest) is evidently favorable to monarchical government.

Is it to have nothing, then, to have no parliaments, no provincial governments, no privileged classes, no clerical bodies, no nobility?
The idea of forming one body of citizens would have pleased Richelieu: this equalized surface facilitates the exercise of power.

Many years of absolute rule could not have done so much for royal authority as this one year of revolution."-- Sainte-Beuve, "Port-Royal," V., 25 (M.Harlay conversing with the superieure of Port-Royal): "People are constantly talking about Port-Royal, about these Port-Royal gentlemen: the King dislikes whatever excites talk.