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Gentlemen, the session continues!
Nearly 130 years ago, on December 9, 1893, Charles Dupuy coldly pronounced this laconic sentence.
Half an hour earlier, a bomb exploded in the Hemicycle.
Democracy has just been attacked at its core.
And the political consequences of this attack will be lasting.
But, facing the deputies - and despite the many injuries to be deplored -, the President of the National Assembly launched: "
It is the dignity of the Chamber of the Republic that in such attacks, wherever they come from and whose cause, moreover, we do not know, do not trouble legislators.
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It is 4 p.m. that day when a deafening noise shakes the walls of the Palais Bourbon.
Everywhere, a rain of projectiles falls on the chosen ones caught in a thick yellowish smoke.
The cloud swells until it invades the room, from floor to ceiling.
A suspended moment, a few seconds of calm... Then cries of pain from both sides of the Hemicycle break the silence.
Over there, a deputy, whose skull has been torn by a nail, looks at his bloody hands.
A little further on, one of his colleagues has his face riddled...
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