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1830. Augt 5.
J.B. to France
Noe then I look forward. Louis the
19th I see seated on the throne. He is a man; and
a man in that situation. This is all I know
of him. Well then, knowing this, I will tell you
what it is he will do.
Together with the Crown or the throne —
which you please, say the throne, his to all
the Royal Gems, and all the Royal
No sooner does a man's sitting part place itself on a
throne, than up rise into his breast all these virtues —
The Charter has made him invulnerable. Other blood
he sheds as much as he has a mind for: his own
is safe. The hymns by which they are ascribed, have
at all times and in all places been chanted in
all liturgies. They were heard by Tiberius. They were
heard by Nero. They were heard by Charles the 9th
They were heard by Charles the 10th They were heard
by Louis the 14th: they will be heard by Lewis the 19th
Let him do what he will, the sweet sound of them
he will continue to hear, so long as a throne is the
name of the chain he sits in.
The old Polignacs — the old Villeles, with
their et catenas, have been swept off the stage. Enter
now the same set under other names. The same
vermin are bred by the same climate and the same
soil.
Now
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