The Fortune of the Rougons. Emile Zola

So the clergy and the nobility accepted accomplished facts with resignation; postponing, until later, the realisation of their hopes, and making amends for their miscalculations by uniting with the Bonapartists for the purpose of crushing the last Republicans.

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      A meger is a farmer in Provence who shares the expenses and profits of his farm with the owner of the land.

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      The Count de Chambord, “Henri V.”