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"This people," he had said, "has a great history behind it, extending over periods which would amaze our disinterrers of human antiquity, but an intelligent race cannot make history without also keeping records of it. Tradition alone, handed on from mind to mind, would not answer their requirements.
On Wednesday, the 16th of October, 1798, at the very hour that Marie Antoinette mounted the scaffold, she who had so wept for her son, the first Dauphin, who died the 4th of June, 1789, at the beginning of the Revolution, the disinterrers of kings violated the grave of this child and threw his bones on the refuse heap.
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