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Comment by B1FF_PSUVM

3 days ago

Some say the straight Paris boulevards were intended for cannon grapeshot ...

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vkou  3 days ago

France had the inverse problem, all the nobles were sequestered away in Versailles, and weren't particularly interested in actually running the state.

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