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Lucy de la Tour du Pin, related to some of the most prominent noble and ecclesiastical families in France, fled the Revolution in 1790 and later recalled that, as the family passed through Dôle (Jura), there were cries of ‘There go some more on the way out, those dogs of aristocrats’. Once across the border in Lausanne:
I spent a very gay fortnight. … There were many other émigrés too. I did not enjoy their company, for they were much given to exaggeration … they mocked everything, and were everlastingly amazed that there should exist in the world anything besides themselves and their ways.
They derided those of their acquaintance who had not yet left the country, sending them white feathers or insulting drawings in the post.1
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McPhee, P. (2006). Without Christ or King, 1791. In: Living the French Revolution, 1789–99. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228818_5
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