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They crossed the square and entered the caf?.
"So you think the world has been standing still! Dieu de Dieu! I
suppose you haven't heard of the royal order for the convocation of
the States General, or the terms of them - that we are to have what
we demanded, what you demanded for us here in Nantes! You haven't
heard that the order has gone forth for the primary elections - the
elections of the electors. You haven't heard of the fresh uproar
in Rennes, last month. The order was that the three estates should
sit together at the States General of the bailliages, but in the
bailliage of Rennes the nobles must ever be recalcitrant. They took
up arms actually - six hundred of them with their valetaille, headed
by your old friend M. de La Tour d'Azyr, and they were for slashing
us - the members of the Third Estate - into ribbons so as to put an
end to our insolence." He laughed delicately. "But, by God, we
showed them that we, too, could take up arms. It was what you
yourself advocated here in Nantes, last November.


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