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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER XVI
12/15

Merchants could be permitted to establish themselves in the suburbs under the regulation of the laws.

The ground floors of all the houses to be occupied with stables and kitchens; the first floors let to persons worth an income of a hundred thousand francs and over; the second, to those worth from eighty to a hundred thousand francs; the third, to those worth from sixty to eighty thousand; the fourth, from fifty to sixty thousand.

No one with an income of less than fifty thousand francs should be permitted to live in Paris.

Workmen are to be lodged ten miles outside of the boundary in workmen's barracks.

We will exempt them from taxes to make them love us; and we'll plant cannon around them to make them fear us.


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