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L’Ancien Régime (pp. 83­4, 103, 125):
I have already pointed out how almost throughout
the whole kingdom the special life of the different
provinces had long since perished; that had helped very
much to make all Frenchmen very like each other. Despite
the diversities which still existed, the unity of the nation
was already clear; it is disclosed by the uniformity of the
legislation. The farther down the eighteenth century we
come there is a corresponding increase in the number of
royal edicts, royal declarations, decrees of Council, which
apply the same rules in the same manner to all parts of
the governed, who conceived the idea of a legislation
quite general and quite uniform, the same everywhere, the
same for all; this idea is revealed in all the successive
projects of reform that appeared during the thirty years