de Clarac, under penalty of the same punishment, go and restore the
ruins of his chateau, where an army of scoundrels failed to smother
him!" - So much the worse for them if they dare not come back!
They are to undergo civil death, perpetual banishment, and, in case
the ban be violated, they will be given up to the guillotine. In
the same case with them are others who, with still greater
innocence, have left the territory, magistrates, ordinary rich
people, burgesses, or peasants, Catholics, and particularly one
entire class, the nonjuring clergy, from the cardinal archbishop
down to the simple village vicar, all prosecuted, then despoiled,
then crushed by the same popular oppression and by the same
legislative oppression, each of these two persecutions exciting and
aggravating the other to such an extent that, at last, the populace
and the law, one the accomplice of the other, no longer leave a roof
nor a piece of bread, nor an hour's safety to a gentleman or to a
priest.[51]
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