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"Colonel, we bring you a set of dominoes," said a little officer, named Palloy, who was the speaker of the delegation " a set of dominoes entirely made out of the ruins of the Bastile." Poor little dauphin!
This Palloy enjoyed some celebrity during the Revolution, being one of the famous patriots of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The constituent Assembly had conceded to him the ownership of the site of the Bastille, of which he distributed its stones among all the communes.
The marble of the box was taken from the altar-slab in the chapel. In the middle was a golden relief, representing a face. "That is my papa king," cried the dauphin, joyfully, looking at the representation. "Yes," replied Palloy, the speaker of the little company, "every one of us bears him in his heart.
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