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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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(SR.)] [Footnote 3103: Stanislas Girardin, "Memoires," I., 273 (22 Thermidor, year X): "The only craving, the only sentiment in France, disturbed for so many years, is repose.

Whatever secures this will gain its assent.
Its inhabitants, accustomed to take an active part in all political questions, now seem to take no interest in them."-- Roederer, III., 484 (Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, Dec.

1, 1803): "The people of the rural districts, busy with its new affairs,...

are perfectly submissive, because they now find security for persons and property..

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