This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...have resounded through the kingdom. We shall be content with nothing less than a Government more or less like that of England." To Major Mauvillon at the same time he appeared in a much more decidedly revolutionary character. "Is it the French People or the hundred thousand individuals who think themselves a caste ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...have resounded through the kingdom. We shall be content with nothing less than a Government more or less like that of England." To Major Mauvillon at the same time he appeared in a much more decidedly revolutionary character. "Is it the French People or the hundred thousand individuals who think themselves a caste apart who are to give laws to France?" But he was also a prudent monarchist. "They are angry with me for always suggesting moderate counsels. But I am convinced that there is a great difference between travelling on the map and on terra firma. The surest way, of making the Revolution abortive is to ask too much of it." The whole man is seen in these contrasts, which are not so much contradictions as different aspects of one policy. From this moment the general lines of this policy were well defined in his mind. He knew how, where and how far he wanted to go, and in the development of the Revolution he found an unhoped-for coincidence of his ideas and his interests. Hitherto his life had been that of a kind of adventurer, squandering in vain endeavours the resources of his mind and the energy of his character. His dream was to be a statesman, and to prove the quality of the genius which distinguished him from other men. "The time has come," he said, "when men are to be estimated by what they carry in the little space under their foreheads between their two eyebrows." Devoted to the interests of the People, who "were all to him," and to whom he had united his destinies, he found the only protection of their rights, the sole guarantee of their sovereignty, in a Monarchy liberated and liberal, and it is not surprising hat as a convinced Royalist he should turn to the King, whom he wished to delive...
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