A narrative of the events which have taken place in France, from the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the first of March, 1815, till the restoration of Louis xviii |
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143 ページ - in yielding to the necessity which separates me from the brave French army, I am confident that by its eminent services, it will merit that praise from its country, which is not refused even by its enemies. Soldiers, I shall follow your steps, though absent. I know every corps, and not one of them will gain any signal advantage without my having kept an account of the bravery it shall have shewn. We have both been calumniated, you, and myself. Soldiers, a few more efforts, and the coalition is dissolved....
95 ページ - The movement was electric. The soldiers threw down their arms, and falling prostrate on the ground, according to the custom of their country, covered their heads with sand. It was the prostration of the heart. On...
242 ページ - Powers, and their respect for the independence of the nation, so positively expressed in their manifestoes. It declares that the Government of France, whoever may be its chief, ought to unite the wishes of the nation legally expressed, and to assimilate itself to other Governments, to become a common bond and the guarantee of peace between France and Europe.
95 ページ - Kosciusko knew him well. I called on him one day to bid him farewell, having read in the official paper of the morning his address to the Poles on the subject of recovering their freedom, being named to the command of the Polish army by Bonaparte. Kosciusko heard me with a smile at my credulity; but on my shewing him the address with his signature, he exclaimed, " This is all a forgery; Bonaparte knew me too well to insult me with any offer in this predatory expedition ; he has...
24 ページ - ... first rudiment of his political knowledge in their school, and been denominated, by high authority, their child and champion. On his first entrance into power, he adopted the system of fusion, and employed such of the chiefs of the faction as had escaped the scaffold. He was, however, too prudent not to keep the party in proper subjection while he continued to practise their favourite maxim, the secret of all their power,
83 ページ - Allah !' says he to the chief priests of Cairo. 'There is no other God, but God ; Mahomet is his prophet, and I am his friend. The divine Koran is the delight of my soul, and the object of my meditation.
35 ページ - the throne of the Bourbons is illegitimate, since it has been erected •" by foreign hands, proscribed by the voice of the nation expressed in every national assembly, and offering no guarantee except to a small number of arrogant men whose pretensions are hostile to its rights. Soldiers, the imperial throne alone can guarantee the rights of the people, and especially the first of interests, that of our glory. We are going to march to drive from our territory those princes, the auxiliaries of foreigners;...
211 ページ - ... artists themselves, that MM. Quatremere de Quincy, Denon, David, Giraudet, and forty other artists, had signed a petition, before their removal, to the Directory, not to displace those objects. Those to whom the English minister's observations were known, seemed to consider them as made rather in compliance with a feeling of national jealousy than of strict justice; and, as actions are seldom placed to the account of the principal agents, the ardour of the English cabinet was attributed to the...
17 ページ - ... had shewn a singular alacrity in declaring themselves traitors, but that Lyons had been left without defence, or the arms necessary for the national guard. It seemed strange also that the fleet at Toulon had remained in the harbour, and that, were it merely to exercise the sailors, no cruize had taken place in the space that reaches from the Isle of Elba to the shores of Provence. It is certain that the conspiracy had been carried on during some months, with more good fortune than address. The...
243 ページ - The equality of civil and political rights, " The liberty of the press, " The liberty of worship, " The representative system,