Memoirs of the Comte De Rambuteau
Memoirs of the Comte De Rambuteau
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In abolishing titles and privileges, you fancy you have accomplished a grand feat, whereas you have simply magnified the great historic names, without putting anything in their place. What does it matter to a Montmorency or a Rouchefoucauld that he is a Count, a Duke, or a Marquis ? Their name suffices them. But a title gives them an equal. Consequently, when I gave titles to my marshals, when I ennobled them with the names of their victories ; when I rewarded all their brilliant services, all ...their illustrious deeds ; I took care to bestow new titles on those belonging to the old nobility instead of restoring their old ones to them. And why ? In order to show that in my eyes true nobility could have but one source, one origin, and to prove my loyalty to the cause of equality, that equality of which France is so proud, and which (unlike liberty, which is the outcome of caprice) is not debasing but, on the contrary, elevating, because it gives to all alike the right to rise, and does justice to individual merit, I determined that from henceforward no one should be able to say to his subordinate, c So far shalt thou rise and no farther, ' and in so doing I achieved a popular success.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In abolishing titles and privileges, you fancy you have accomplished a grand feat, whereas you have simply magnified the great historic names, without putting anything in their place. What does it matter to a Montmorency or a Rouchefoucauld that he is a Count, a Duke, or a Marquis ? Their name suffices them. But a title gives them an equal. Consequently, when I gave titles to my marshals, when I ennobled them with the names of their victories ; when I rewarded all their brilliant services, all ...their illustrious deeds ; I took care to bestow new titles on those belonging to the old nobility instead of restoring their old ones to them. And why ? In order to show that in my eyes true nobility could have but one source, one origin, and to prove my loyalty to the cause of equality, that equality of which France is so proud, and which (unlike liberty, which is the outcome of caprice) is not debasing but, on the contrary, elevating, because it gives to all alike the right to rise, and does justice to individual merit, I determined that from henceforward no one should be able to say to his subordinate, c So far shalt thou rise and no farther, ' and in so doing I achieved a popular success.
What to read after Memoirs of the Comte De Rambuteau?
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