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`` Listen please '', I called to the students in French.

`` I thank you most heartily for being here.

This is full evidence of your support for my principles.

These principles, however, will not be served by violence in any form.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

I ask you all to support me in this.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

Your self-control in this respect will be the only witness to your understanding of what I am saying.

I have full confidence in you.

Now, let's go ''.