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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I.

Note 39 — Chapter II

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"The passion for republican institutions infected even the courtiers of the palace. Thunders of applause shook the theatre of Versailles at the celebrated lines of Voltaire—

"Je suis fils de Brutus, et je porte en mon cœur La liberté gravée et les rois en horreur." Ségur, tom. i., p. 253.

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