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I cannot here omit mentioning, that a painting of the old school is in existence, having a remarkable resemblance to the scene described in the foregoing chapter, although it be nevertheless true that the similarity is in all respects casual, and that the author knew not of the existence of the painting till it was sold, amongst others, with the following description attached to it in a well-drawn-up catalogue: "FREDERIGO ZUCCHERO "Scene as represented in the Fortunes of Nigel, by Frederigo Zucchero, the King's painter.
Fournier, a priest, having reflected on the government from his pulpit in Saint-Roch, is arrested by the police, put in Bicetre as mad, and the First Consul replies to the Paris clergy who claim his release "in a well-drawn-up petition,": "I wanted to prove to you, when I put my cap on the wrong side out, that priests must obey the civil power."
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