C’est la loi qui fait que l’on arrache la vigne sur les coteaux et qu’on en plante dans les plaines, pour se soustraire aux vexations des contributions indirectes.
Tag: Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire
SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS
It is the law that causes people to dig up vines on the hill slopes and plant them in the flat fields to avoid the vexations of indirect taxation.
BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM
I am not calling on the state to align everyone with my views but to say, “Do not subject me to the opinion of others.”
BACCALAURÉAT ET SOCIALISME
Ce ne sont pas seulement des mots qu’on apprend aux enfants en leur apprenant le grec et le latin, ce sont de nobles et sublimes choses (la spoliation, la guerre et l’esclavage).
BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM
It is not just the words that are being taught to children when they are taught Greek and Latin, it is noble and sublime things (plunder, war, and slavery).