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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: Mignon, had a shrewd and calculating father, whose one idea was to
save his feudal estate of La Bastie in the Comtat from the claws of
the Revolution. Like all timid folk of that day, the Comte de La
Bastie, now citizen Mignon, found it more wholesome to cut off other
people's heads than to let his own be cut off. The sham terrorist
disappeared after the 9th Thermidor, and was then inscribed on the
list of emigres. The estate of La Bastie was sold; the towers and
bastions of the old castle were pulled down, and citizen Mignon was
soon after discovered at Orleans and put to death with his wife and
all his children except Charles, whom he had sent to find a refuge for
the family in the Upper Alps.
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