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Chapter 5
            A Tale of Two Cities
           Around the time of little Lucie’s sixth birthday, news began to
         reach the Manettes’ home of trouble coming in France. For years,
         the anger and hunger of the people of Paris had been growing, and
         one July day in 1789, it exploded into a revolution. That morning, a
         huge crowd of people poured onto the streets, holding guns, knives,
         sticks, and stones.
           ‘To the Bastille!’ they cried, as they moved forwards towards the
         city’s prison in a great wave.

           For hours, there was fire and smoke, the noise of cries and


         screams, and the flash of weapons, but the people were stronger

         than the prison’s officers, and at last they began to pour forwards
         inside its walls.



































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