父亲是个严厉的专制主义者。

Father was a strict authoritarian.

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专制主义者利于人民愚昧，我们则利于人民聪明，我们要使一切人民都能逐渐地离开愚昧状态与不卫生的状态。

It is to the advantage of despots to keep people ignorant; it is to our advantage to make them intelligent. We must lead all of them gradually from ignorance.

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废奴主义者是反对针对美国黑人的专制主义传统而战，而妇女运动是为反对(针对妇女的)防范传统而战。

While the abolitionist movement was fighting a tradition of tyranny against the African-American, the women's movement was fighting a tradition of protection.

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But, in February of 1871 there are elections and the provinces, particularly the conservative, western provinces like Brittany return this extremely monarchist dominated National Assembly that is going to determine the future of France.

在一八七一年二月,举行了一系列选举,并且那些守旧城市,像西部城市布列塔尼,那里的国民大会,又重新被极端君主专制主义者们掌握,而这将决定法国的未来

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