Louis Napoleon and Mademoiselle de MontijoHutchinson & Company, 1900 - 504 pages |
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Page 368 - Vote, then, freely as citizens; but, as soldiers, do not forget that passive obedience to the orders of the chief of the Government is the rigorous duty of the army, from the general down to the soldier. It is for me, who am responsible for my actions before the people and posterity, to adopt the measures most conducive to the public welfare.
Page 344 - the French Republic did not send an army to Rome to stifle Italian liberty there, but on the contrary to regulate it by preserving it against its own excesses, and to give it a solid...
Page 127 - Déclinent comme l'ombre au penchant des coteaux L'amitié te trahit, la pitié t'abandonne, Et, seule, tu descends le sentier des tombeaux. Mais la nature est là qui t'invite et qui t'aime ; Plonge-toi dans son sein qu'elle t'ouvre toujours ; Quand tout change pour toi, la nature est la même, Et le même soleil se lève sur tes jours.
Page 367 - I have received from you. But if you believe that the cause of which my name is the symbol — that is to say, France regenerated by the Revolution of '89, and organized by the Emperor — is still your own, proclaim it by consecrating the powers which I ask from you.
Page 187 - We shall meet again, shall we not, in a better world, where you will put off coming to rejoin me as long as possible ; believe, too, that in quitting this one I regret nothing but you, but your dear affection, which alone has made me find here any charm. It will be a consolation for you, my dear, to think that your cares have rendered your mother as happy as it was possible for her to be. " Believe that one has always a clear-sighted and benevolent view of what one leaves here below ; but most surely...
Page 380 - Soldiers ! resume then these eagles, not as a menace against foreign powers, but as the symbol of our independence, as the souvenir of an heroic epoch, and as a sign of the nobleness of each regiment. Take again these eagles, which have so often led our fathers to victory, and swear to die, if necessary, in their defence.
Page 343 - I do not complain, then, of having expiated here, by an imprisonment of six years, my temerity against the laws of my country ; and it is with...
Page 478 - Soon, on my way to Notre Dame, I shall present the Empress to the people and the army. The confidence...
Page 242 - A last word, gentlemen. I represent before you a principle, a cause, a defeat. The principle is the sovereignty of the people ; the cause that of the Empire ; the defeat, Waterloo.
Page 486 - Guzman y Palafox Fernandez de Cordova, Leyva y la Cerda, Comtesse de Teba, de Banos, de Mora, de Santa-Cruz, de la Sierra, Marquise de Moya de...