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Citizens, can you believe it? The
Orateur du peuple is in chains! He had only taken up the pen in defense of your rights, he was a dynamic writer of the most ardent patriotism…he fought the ministerial hydra with a club, and the aristocracy with ridicule…Well, the Municipality has slandered
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intentions…it has poisoned his innocent phrases… the voice the
Orateur du peuple will pierce the vaults of his prison…the articles of the Rights of Man were made to be used by this French citizen…so that he may publish his opinions.
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510:Haitian Revolution
405:Napoleon Bonaparte
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253:abbé Royou
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