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 1 1|        ambassador, a marshal of France or a minister of State,
 2 1|     Report.~ ~When the kings of France took to themselves ministers,
 3 1|      The finest things of~which France can boast have been accomplished
 4 1|      Report"~rampant throughout France, from the colonel to the
 5 1|  business took a literary form. France went to ruin in spite of
 6 1|        documents, failing which France would have been~ruined,
 7 1|      threads which have chained France to Parisian centralization,--
 8 1|         as if~from 1500 to 1800 France had undertaken nothing for
 9 1|          He thought that if the France of former days possessed~
10 1|       and~domestic affairs, the France of to-day was not likely
11 1|      not~overwhelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political
12 1|        service force throughout France to five~thousand men, exclusive
13 1|        his friends,~"founded in France and practically explained
14 1|         are usually revealed in France by~rentals, by the number
15 1|  provide for his own future and France~was delivered from the cancer
16 1|         luxury of the days when France shone like a~vast encampment,
17 2|       of any kind impossible~in France, that no good strokes of
18 2|      been lackey to the~bank of France; a little more ambition,
19 4|        adulated~by free men. In France ministers are better off
20 4| believed in nothing, neither in France, nor in God, nor in~art,
21 4|         often talked~of leaving France and seeking his fortune
22 4|         to rid the division and France of the young fool by~tempting
23 5|       Majesty to the thrones of France and of~Navarre. Last night
24 5|        la grace de Dieu, roi de~France et de Navarre."~ ~Godard [
25 5|        is far more dangerous in France than in other countries.~
26 5|  inapplicable to the affairs of France. Such~men, by whom the difficulties
27 7|         in the matter of dress. France reigns through clothes over
28 7|   sceptre that makes fashion in France what the navy is to~England.
29 7|         millions. Then, indeed, France would be~great. If you want
30 7|         draw interest away from~France; some day an alien nation
31 7|       interest are held only in France, neither France nor~credit
32 7|         only in France, neither France nor~credit can perish. That'
33 7|   essence of which is to~govern France with a civil service of
34 7|        man of genius, a king of France who attempted to carry it
35 7|         Just think of governing France with five or six thousand~
36 7|     needed is that everybody in France should~be personally enlisted
37 8|         la~grace de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre,' I should
38 8|        this glorious kingdom of France! And there are but two ways
39 8|     everything is~laughed at in France, even God."~ ~Then he took
40 8|   stupefaction]. "Gentlemen, if~France, the country with the best
41 8|         officials, the glory of France and of~the Emperor Napoleon,--
42 8|   thousand government clerks in France. The~average of their salaries
43 8|        fact~that for this price France possesses the most inquisitorial,
44 8|       peculation, it is a myth. France at this~present time possesses
45 8|    which becomes, especially~in France, dangerous to the public