"L'ORATEUR DES ÉTATS-GÉNÉRAUX pour 1789". Anonymous. Third Edition. Impr. 37 pp in-8° - "...It is beautiful, no doubt, to have to make its tyrants its corrupters blush in this way! It is beautiful to make them wise and happy, despite the disorder of their ideas and their pretensions! It is beautiful to pay their debts, despite the extravagant plan they had to go bankrupt! It is sublime, finally, to give this example to the Nations of the earth; a unique and memorable example! And it is France, it is our august Patria, which will have provided this example, by raising the edifice of its liberty on solid, unshakeable foundations. END".

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