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		labster on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in b... The state needs not have a monopoly on violence. Dueling was outlawed in France in 1626, and early modern France was certainly a state. The dueling laws only became necessary because our mores on violence changed.

thegrimmest on Nov 5, 2021 [–]

Early modern France was a monarchy, not a democracy and liberté, égalité, fraternité had yet to be uttered there.

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