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Excerpt from The History of Civilization, Vol. 1: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
It is well known that prior to 1789, the Doctrinaires were an educational body. M. Boyer-collard had been educated in a college Of Doctrinaires, and in the debates of the Chamber his logical and lofty understanding always impelling him to sum up the question in a dogmatical form, the word doctrine was Often upon his lips, so that one day a wag Of the royalist majority cried out, Voila. Bien les doctrinaires.' The phrase took, and remained as a definition, if not clear, at all events absolute, Of the political fraction directed by royer-collard.
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