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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: this body was known as the examining jury, as distinguished from the
trying jury. As to the final trial, if we should restore the examining
jury, it would have to be the function of the superior courts without
the aid of a jury.
"And now," said Camusot, after a pause, "what is your name?--
Attention, Monsieur Coquart!" said he to the clerk.
"Lucien Chardon de Rubempre."
"And you were born----?"
"At Angouleme." And Lucien named the day, month, and year.
"You inherited no fortune?"
"None whatever."
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