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Burlesques

CHAPTER II
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Measures were concerted for the instant putting down of the disturbances in the departments of the Rhine and Loire, and it is arranged that on the capture of the pretenders, they shall be lodged in separate cells in the prison of the Luxembourg: the apartments are already prepared, and the officers at their posts.
"The grand banquet that was to be given at the palace to-day to the diplomatic body, has been put off; all the ambassadors being attacked with illness, which compels them to stay at home." "The ambassadors despatched couriers to their various Governments." "His Majesty the King of the Belgians left the palace of the Tuileries.".


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