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3167. FRANCE, Reformation of.—

France is advancing to a change of constitution.
The young desire it, the middle-aged
are not averse, the old alone oppose it. They
will die. The provincial assemblies will chalk
out the plan; and the nation, ripening fast,
will execute it.—
To M. de Crevecœur. Washington ed. ii, 234.
(P. 1787)