The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volume 3H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Volledige weergave - 1854 |
The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Volledige weergave - 1852 |
The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Volledige weergave - 1852 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accomplices accused agitation allied powers ambition amongst appeared arms army assembly Benjamin Constant blood Bonaparte Bonapartists Bourbons brother Carbonarism cause Chamber of Peers Chateaubriand command confidence conspirators constitutional council Count d'Artois coup d'état court crime d'Angoulême Davoust death Decazes Deputies Didier Duke de Berry Duke de Richelieu Duke of Wellington Emperor Empire enemies Europe excited exile faction favour favourite foreign fortune Fouché France French friends glory Grenoble hand hatred heart honour hope insulted insurrection King King's Labédoyère Lainé liberal liberty Louis XVI Louis XVIII majesty marshal ment military mind minister ministry monarchy Murat Naples Napoleon Napoleon II nation negociations officers palace pardon Paris party passions police political popular prefect prince prisoner provinces public opinion reign replied restoration retired revolution royal royalists secret soldiers soul sovereign Talleyrand thought throne tion Toulon tribune troops ultra-royalists vengeance vessel victim Wellington wished young zeal
Populaire passages
Pagina 235 - Holy and Indivisible Trinity. Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia...
Pagina 236 - Christian nation, of which they and their people form a part, has in reality no other Sovereign than Him to whom alone power...
Pagina 48 - English henceforth to talk of their sincerity, their laws, and liberties. British faith will have been lost in the hospitality of the Bellerophon. " I appeal to history: it will say, that an enemy who made war for twenty years against the English people came spontaneously, in the hour of misfortune, to seek an asylum under their laws. What more striking proof could he give of his esteem and confidence? But how did England reply to such an act of magnanimity ? It pretended to hold out a hospitable...
Pagina 47 - I came voluntarily on board of the Bellerophon ; I am not a prisoner, I am the guest of England.
Pagina 42 - Exposed to the factions which divide my country, and to the enmity of the great powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself on the hospitality (litwatty, to seat myself on the hearths) of the British people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Pagina 234 - Providence has caused to arise, even amidst public calamities. It is only thus that the wishes formed by the allied cabinets, for the preservation of the constitutional authority of his most Christian Majesty, for the happiness of his country, and for the maintenance of the peace of the world, can be crowned with a complete success, and that France, re-established on her ancient bases, can resume the place to which she is called in the European system.
Pagina 550 - He may, therefore, be accused of impropriety, but not of cruelty. He was the occasion rather than the cause of the sad end of Napoleon. On reading attentively the correspondence and notes exchanged under every pretext, between the adherents of Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe, we are astonished at the insults, the provocations and the invectives with which the captive and his friends outraged the governor at every turn.
Pagina 57 - I owe it, then, to the dignity of my crown, to the interest of my people, to the repose of Europe, to except from pardon the instigators and authors of this horrible plot. They shall be designated to the vengeance of the laws by the two chambers, which I propose forthwith to assemble.
Pagina 64 - ... never treat with Napoleon or any of his family; that the appointment of Napoleon II. was to be attributed to Napoleon I., and the acknowledgment of him to the desire to conciliate the army, and that I should not stop my operations in consequence of such an arrangement. " They then asked me what would be the case if any other Prince of a Royal house were called to the throne...
Pagina 554 - Genius and glory were not denied to him ; but it was deplored that so much genius and so much glory had only been consecrated to the personal greatness of one man, instead of being devoted to the amelioration of the world. This is where he failed to his destiny, to God, to humanity, to France, and to himself. The fine part of his character was not equalled by the good. He was the greatest man of modern times, but he was also the most sterile in results for the human race. He wasted France and Europe...