"Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois."
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The passage is as follows:—Le peuple n’a pas, sans doute, le droit de murmurer; mais, sans doute aussi, il a le droit de se taire; et son silence est la leçon des rois.—"The people, no doubt, has not the right to murmur; but, as certainly also, it has the right to hold its peace, and the people’s silence is a lesson to its king." The preacher was contrasting the unpopularity of the king’s latter years with the earlier part of his reign. On the Good Friday previous (1 April 1774), the same prelat
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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais
(17 October 1731 – 4 April 1790) was a French writer and the Roman Catholic bishop of Senez.
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