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5053. MARIE ANTOINETTE, Extravagance.—

Nor should we wonder at * * * [the] pressure [for a fixed constitution in
1788-9] when we consider the monstrous abuses
of power under which * * * [the French] people were ground to powder; when we pass
in review * * * the enormous expenses of
the Queen, the princes and the Court.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., 1, 118.
(1821)