Where are you going, foreign traitor? Is this were you belong, misplaced bourgeoisie? Return to your little town, or you will perish by my hand.
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Remarks to Jacques Necker as Necker entered the royal council (10 July 1789), recorded in Charles-Henri, Baron de Gleichen, Souvenirs (1868), p. 63, quoted in Vincent W. Beach, 'The Count of Artois and the Coming of the French Revolution', The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (December 1958), p. 323