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"We cannot be surprised to find stupid folks among the electors, and indeed they are numerous enough in this world to have a claim to be represented."

A description of how voters love to interrogate candidates for office, their questions being quite personal and irrelevant. It seems the treatment of politicians today has changed very little from France in the 1830s. No doubt American voters were just as impertinent then as they are now. Of course, Balzac does a wonderful job of skewering politicians as well as voters.