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The French Revolution

CHAPTER 1
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&c .-- See Montgaillard, i.

407.) this poor Plenary Court met once, and never any second time.

Distracted country! Contention hisses up, with forked hydra-tongues, wheresoever poor Lomenie sets his foot.

'Let a Commandant, a Commissioner of the King,' says Weber, 'enter one of these Parlements to have an Edict registered, the whole Tribunal will disappear, and leave the Commandant alone with the Clerk and First President.

The Edict registered and the Commandant gone, the whole Tribunal hastens back, to declare such registration null.


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