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Unlike the bourgeoisie of other lands, middle-class Frenchmen are quick to quit their snug hearths and do battle in the streets when they think their rascally politicians need a lesson. Last week some of the most substantial families in France were represented in two days of spirited assaults upon luckless police assigned to the painful duty of guarding the Chamber of Deputies. "Thieves! Assassins! Staviskys!" shrieked sturdy citizens breaking their canes in furious scuffles which always ended in their being overpowered and carted off for a brief respite in jail.* "Swindlers!...
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