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"Even when it succeeds?" "Above all when it succeeds." "Why?" "Because it then becomes an example." "You do not then approve of the Eighteenth Fructidor?" "No." "But Eighteenth Fructidors prevent Eighteenth Brumaires." "No. They prepare the way for them." "But reasons of State exist?" "No. What exists is the Law." "The Eighteenth Fructidor has been accepted by exceedingly honest minds."
The date is given in the denomination which will be intelligible to the reader, as the Fructidors and the Messidors, Brumaires and Nivoses, which had then been adopted by the republicans, now convey no very defined idea to people, who have not yet scrupled to call the months by their old aristocratic names, or to count the year from their Saviour's birth. "Chateau of Clisson, July 1798.
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