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The People Of Le Comte

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To the people of Fontenay-le-Comte,

I thank you all for having provided me with the opportunity to represent you in the National Assembly. Over the past few months, I had listened to and voted on each proposition with only your best interest in mind. Yet, despite my efforts, most of you had written to me about your disappointment in the National Assembly and concern with the state of France as a country. Over and over again, you have believed that your own government had voted and acted against your wishes. Echoing Edmund Burke’s sentiments in Reflections on the Revolution, you all agree that “the fresh ruins of France, …, are not the devastation of civil war; they are the sad but instructive monuments of rash and ignorant counsel [by the radical leaders] in time of profound peace” (Popiel et. al.,149). However, I write today to inform you all to cease your worries. With foreign aid from Austria and Prussia, France is bound to return to its foundations with a renewed potential to succeed, with its entire people by its side. With the events that have recently transpired in our country, King Louis XVI has been reinstated to his former position of power. Alongside the king, the Catholic Church has also returned with more authority and influence than ever, providing you all with the guidance that you may have lost under the leadership of the National Assembly. With both the king and the Catholic Church back in power, a number of ordinances that had deprived the Church of its

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