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My dear Mr Barksdale,

  Naturally, there were members of the Third Estate who opposed the
Republic, or who supported it without endorsing all its cruelties, who
condemned the aristocracy for its arrogance and greed, but who favoured
mercy over vengeance. Their fate was that of dissidents in any ruthless
autocracy.  They either kept their dissent to themselves, or expressed it
only very discreetly, or expressed indiscreetly and suffered for it.  Any
history of the French Revolution will
illustrate this.  But you might like also to consider the fates of Theophile
Gabelle, in my book, and of the little seamstress, only suspected of plotting.

Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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>I have just finished reading The Tale of Two Cities and I was wondering
were there any people of the third estate that did not agree with the
execution of the aristocracy, and if so what happened to them?
>                      Antonio Barksdale
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