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The propriety of pouring these insults upon Italy was affirmed

by a vote of the Chamber, rejecting M. Jules Favre's proposals by 237 to 17. The Napoleons announce that their permanent func- tion is that of gendarmes to the Vatican, and a French Chamber, elected by universal suffrage, endorses that decision by 14 to 1. France also endorsed the Day of St. Bartholomew, and the House of Valois, therefore, made way for the Protestant founder of the Bourbon line.

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