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But mark the issue --Not twelve years have elapsed before she has returned to an inglorious despotism--She has exchanged her Capets for a foreign usurper, with an incalculable loss, and here her history ends.
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Daggett notes the rapid decline of France from a position of glory to despotism within a short time.
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