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château hère means royalty which they meant to abolish

4. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine was a populous district in the eastern part of Paris near the Bastille. It was inhabited chiefly by a poor but turbulent population. The Faubourg Saint-Marceau was a similar district just across the Seine.

Page 30. — 1. Saint-Huruge was an unprincipled nobleman who had wasted his substance in riotous living. He was a violent démagogue.

2. Théroigne de Méricourt was born in 1759 in Belgium. Having had an unfortunate love-affair, she went to Paris and there became one of the leaders of the Revolutionists. She died in 181 7 in a mad-house.

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