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This gang of murderers and savages have wholly laid waste and utterly ruined the beautiful and happy country of the Comtat Venaissin and the city of Avignon.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the devastation caused by a group he labels as murderers and savages in a specific region of France.
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