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In our large cities, the plight shared Within two men are unjust laws stored.
Some, princes and large, a greedy shameless flaunt opulence
the barbarian insolence Other, shameless, vile these large customers, Go crawl under the walls that hide their tyrants, Admire the palaces lofty columns
which themselves have paid the splendors inhuman, that they themselves were torn from the bowels of the mountains, and everything still soaked with the sweat of their brows. "Andre Chenier

betrayed and beheaded by his own friends to check again the maxim of Talleyrand. This piece

brutal shot of Hermes (the 3rd song prologue), shows clearly that if the poet can be confusing naivety about his perception of human reality, his analysis of the world is her astounding lucidity. .