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From: "Luc" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Seignorial Dues
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:35:18 -0400
References: <20030823194146.27933.h010.c001.wm@mail.leroy.ws.criticalpath.net>

The night the suppression of these dues happened is August 4th 1789. It
began by bthe action of the youngest member of the Noailles family , le
vicomte de Noailles , a relative of the wife of the marquis de La Fayette .
some historians have suspected that because he was the youngest and couldn't
get any of the advantages of his family's wealth, he decided to ask for the
suppression because he wouldnt lose anything and he could make a name for
himself . But his speech opened the doors to the abolition of privileges so
still now in France , la "nuit du 4 aôut " is still a political term meaning
a new beginning lastr week a member of ecological association asked for a
new "nuit du 4 août ". Luc

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