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broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were
debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for
lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood
still, bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more
for the poor. All had vanished.
The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed
somewhere. Less than four years after the judgment of the
Court of Assizes establishing the identity of Jean Valjean
and M. Madeleine, for the benefit of the galleys, the cost of
collecting taxes had doubled in the arrondissement of M.
sur M.; and M. de Villele called attention to the fact in the
rostrum, in the month of February, 1827.

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