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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
19/70

Every hour produces its pamphlet; 13 came out to-day, 16 yesterday, and 92 last week.

95% of these productions are in favor of liberty;" and by liberty is meant the extinction of privileges, numerical sovereignty, the application of the Contrat-Social, "The Republic", and even more besides, a universal leveling, permanent anarchy, and even the jacquerie.

Camille Desmoulins, one of the orators, commonly there, announces it and urges it in precise terms: "Now that the animal is in the trap, let him be battered to death...
Never will the victors have a richer prey.

Forty thousand palaces, mansions, and chateaux, two-fifth of the property of France, will be the recompense of valor.

Those who pretend to be the conquerors will be conquered in turn.


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