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_ BOOK VI. THE ABSOLUTION: FIRST PHASE I. THE ABSOLUTION THE 7,500,000 VOTES Some one says to us: "You do not consider! All these facts, which you call crimes, are henceforth 'accomplished facts,' and consequently to be respected; it is all accepted, adopted, legitimized, absolved." "Accepted! adopted! legitimized! absolved! by what?" "By a vote." "What vote?" "The seven million five hundred thousand votes." "Oh! true. There was a plebiscite, and a vote, and seven million five hundred thousand ayes. Let us say a word of them." _ |
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