“Do you think that Mr Pitt really cares whether we have Louis executed?’ ‘Personally? Oh no, no one gives a damn for Louis. But they think it is a bad precedent to cut off monarch’s heads.’ ‘It was the English who set the precedent.’ ‘They try to forget that.”
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