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When the National Assembly managed to get grudging, provisional and essentially false agreement from the King for a new constitution of limited monarchy, every town and country didtrict in France was invited to send in a Cahier de Doléance (notebook of grievances) explaining what their grumbles were against the old state of things, and what they would like improved.

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