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Updated: July 10, 2025
"This custom," said M. de Barentin, "has existed from time immemorial, and if the king wished...." "And if twenty-five millions of men do not wish it," exclaimed Bailly, interrupting the minister, "where are the means to force them?"
He knew that to reach Barentin, the car, passing out of the great square, surrounded by the new barracks, would follow the quay, traverse the town from end to end, pass near the famous transshipping bridge, and join the high road again.
Necker was also received on his entrance with general enthusiasm. Barentin, keeper of the seals, spoke next after the king. His speech displayed little knowledge of the wishes of the nation, or it sought openly to combat them. The dissatisfied assembly looked to M. Necker, from whom it expected different language.
What he thought was: "A fig for Barentin!... If I see the least sign that this little fellow is going to give me the slip, leave me for a minute if it looks as though he were going to warn the authorities I know someone who will take to flight ... and how!"... Kilometres succeeded kilometres in endless procession. Ceaselessly the landscapes unrolled themselves like views on a cinema film.
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