A History of My Time Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier volume 2
A History of My Time Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier volume 2
Etienne Denis Pasquier
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They were of opinion that the time had come to put a curb to absolutism. Since France was being called upon to make the greatest, the most extreme efforts, was it not fair that she should take certain precautionary measures against a recurrence of the rash enterprises which had reduced her to such an extremity ? But these ideas — I can truly say so, for I have since then repeatedly been told by all the members of the committee, and especially by M. Laine — were expressed without any hostile int...entions, with no wish to do injury, much less with any revolutionary thought. On the contrary, this committee entertained the sincere desire of once more winning over the nation to the Emperor. When this report was read in secret committee, on the 29th, it was unanimously endorsed and ordered printed ; this was a means of promptly bringing into close communion the feelings of the Corps Ugislatif with those of the coun- try ; still, as the document was, so to speak, merely in the shape of a draft, on the basis of which an address still 134 MEMOIRS OF CHANCELLOR PASQUIER remained to be drawn up, some of the members thought that such an anticipatory publication might savor of some irregularity, that it was contrary to usage, and that it would be preferable to wait until the drawing up of the address, which alone, perhaps, should see the light of print.
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