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Hello. My name is Isabeau. My apologies for being so forward, but if I may, might I request something of you all? If there are people here by the names of Flynn, Jonathan, or Walter, I would very much like to know. If we have been summoned here to fight, I would like to think that there's a chance, small though it may be. Either way, thank you.

[Heavy business out of the way, she brightens a bit.]

By the by, my home... did not provide a place where I could have learned how to swim. As it seems that it would behoove me to learn here, is there a place where I might do so?

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[Decisively:]

No. If a country is to be free, tyrants such as Bonaparte must be overthrown. That we returned to monarchy is disappointing but that does not mean Bonaparte was better.

Do you consider monarchy to be inherent tyranny, then?

I fail to see how it can be anything but. Put a man in a position of absolute power and eventually he will no longer do what is best for the people. I myself consider any government that does not allow the people to govern themselves to be flawed and unjust.

I take it that you consider any system that does not do so to be tyranny, at least to some extent, or am I not correct? Either way, is that the only reason you find them flawed?

You are correct, yes. There are other reasons I do not find monarchy and similar governments suitable but most of them are connected to that one reason. They enforce the idea that one man is worth more than his neighbor simply because one happens to be born with more money than another.

That idea, is it a new one in your world? [Rose of Versailles is just a story, after all.]

It is, more or less. There is a country, America, that is founded on the idea of Republicanism, but it is the first of its kind.

Most other countries are still pure monarchies?

England has a Parliament as well as their king, but you would have to ask an Englishman for more details.

Parliament... would you know if that's like the Diet? I suppose that's something I should be asking an Englishman, though; do you know any here?

I would not know, and there are several. Dorian Gray would likely be able to tell you whatever you'd like to know.

Thank you!

Jean, was it? It's been very helpful talking to you. I hope we can speak again soon.

[By now, he's gotten used to the first name basis thing and so doesn't object]

You are quite welcome. I look forward to our next conversation.

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