The people in Paris are awaiting some sort of military help from the provinces, but it simply goes on and on.

巴黎民众翘首企盼,希望别的省份出兵相助,然而围困的僵局还是丝毫没有打破的迹象

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Because it's identified with the Spanish empire, with Spain, which not only wanted to extract taxes and to extract taxes and other revenue from its most prosperous province, but wanted to force people to remain Catholic.

因为天主教是与西班牙帝国联系在一起的,西班牙不仅从这个最富有的省份,榨取税收和其他收入,还想强迫人民保持天主教信仰

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And, so, as things are going downhill many people in Paris said look, we must keep fighting, but we must imagine a different world where--we have, we're being betrayed by the provinces that are not helping us, and we need to have help from the provinces.

于是局势日渐危急,许多在巴黎的人说,我们必须战斗,我们要想象出一个全新的世界,有些省份对我们坐视不理,我们被遗弃了,我们需要其他省的援助

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