On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke laments the decline of chivalry and the protective reverence for women, particularly Marie Antoinette, in the face of revolutionary fervor.
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