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3174. FRANCE, Restoration of.—

It is
impossible that France should rest under her
present oppressions and humiliations. She


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will rise in that gigantic strength which cannot
be annihilated, and will fatten her fields
with the blood of her enemies. I only wish
she may exercise patience and forbearance
until divisions among [the Allies] may give
her a choice of sides.—
To M. Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. vi, 508.
(M. 1815)