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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: honor, but to all the rights of which he was deprived. In doing
this you are doing justice. Such exhibitions of character are so
rare in this Court that we cannot refrain from testifying to the
petitioner how heartily we applaud his conduct, which an august
approval has already privately encouraged."
The prosecuting officer closed by reading his charge in the customary
formal terms.
The Court deliberated without retiring, and the president rose to
pronounce judgement.
"The Court," he said, in closing, "desires me to express to
Birotteau the satisfaction with which it renders such a judgment.
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