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You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday, as a nation of low-born, servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You would not have chosen to consider the French as a people of yesterday, as a nation of low-born, servile wretches…”
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Burke criticizes the perception of the French people as insignificant until their revolution, urging a recognition of their historical significance.
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