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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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I, 1806.

(Tribunate, session of Nivose 9, year XIV., speeches of MM.

Albisson and Gillet .-- Senate, speeches of MM.

Perignon, Garat, de Lacepede.)--In the following numbers we find municipal addresses, letters of bishops and the odes of poets in the same strain .-- In the way of official enthusiasm take the following two fine examples.

("Debats," March 29, 1811.) "The Paris municipal council deliberated on the vote of a pension for life of 10,000 francs in favor of M.de Govers, His Majesty's second page, for bringing to the Hotel de Ville the joyful news of the birth of the King of Rome..


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