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The spirit-rappers had alighted at the château of Faverges, and thence had spread through the village; and the notary questioned them particularly. Shocked at Bouvard's scepticism, he invited the two friends to an evening party at table-turning. Was this a trap? Madame Bordin was to be there. Pécuchet went alone.
They excited Bouvard's pity, as he had read Augustin Thierry first: "What trash you talk with your French nation, seeing that France did not exist! nor the national assemblies! and the Carlovingians usurped nothing at all! and the kings did not set free the communes! Read for yourself." Pécuchet gave way before the evidence, and surpassed him in scientific strictness.
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