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Feudalism is but a system of Slaves and Tyrants; my country, desiring to be free, can no longer preserve anything in this system.

— François-Noël Babeuf

La féodalité n'est qu'un système d'Esclaves et de Tyrans; ma patrie veut-être libre, ne peut plus rien conserver dans ce qui tient à ce système.

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