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." "For what ?"--"The right of governing the nation.

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." "Through whom?
pray, whom ?"--"Why, France's three estates." In the face of the evil Louis felt no fear of the remedy.

He summoned the states-general to a meeting at Tours on the 1st of April, 1468.
Twenty-eight lords in person, besides representatives of several others who were unable to be there themselves, and a hundred and ninety-two deputies elected by sixty-four towns, met in session.