"Are we not acting on the defensive when we respond to the blows which we receive from above?"
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Auguste Vaillant
Auguste Vaillant (27 December 1861 - 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.
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