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No page of history is more melancholy, because nowhere do we find a ruler who so completely abandoned his country: not Charles the First in his tyranny, not Louis the Sixteenth in his weakness.
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Sumner reflects on the historical significance of a ruler's abandonment of their country, comparing it to past monarchs.
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