The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France 3
The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France 3
Lamartine Alphonse De
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Lain^, rivals and even superiors in public affairs. M. de Serres was president of the chamber; M. Guizot, M. de Barante, the Duke de Broglie and M. Ville- main, men of promise, formed, under different titles around the favorite minister, not only a friendly circle but a political party. All of them well versed in the study of the constitu tional history of England, all having felt at an early age, the humiliating weight of the despotism of Napoleon upon thought and upon the dignity of the mind,... all strangers either by their birth, or their youth, to the superstitions of the court of the old regime, they laid themselves out with good faith to reconcile young France and the old monarchy, by maturing the one and renovating the other. Gifted with minds more erudite than creative, they had perspicacity enough to comprehend the analo- gies between the revolution of 1688 and that of 1789, but not genius enough to comprehend the differences between them Their doctrines were nothing but imitations : they wished to establish in France, vdthout having the elements for it, a parlia- mentary party between the King, the nobility, and the people, seizing upon the government in right of superior intelligence or ambition, pitting the .people against the King and the King against the people, the plebeian mind against the nobility ; thus founding a government coBte independent of aU social forms, subsisting and maintaining itself by talent, the management of afi&drs, the pen, and the tribune, like those foreign, but domi- nating races, which impose and maintain themselves in the east between the people and the sovereign.
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