Paris in July and August 1830: an historical narrative of the revolution of the 27th, 28th and 29th of July 1830 : its causes and effects ; the orders in council and other official papers : the constitutional charter with its modifications and the celebrated speech of M. de Chateaubriand

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Baudry, 1830 - 304 pages
 

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Page 223 - Inhabitants of Paris, — the deputies of France at this moment assembled at Paris have expressed to me the desire that I should repair to this capital to exercise the functions of lieutenant-general of the kingdom. I have not hesitated...
Page 39 - The press has thus excited confusion in the most upright minds, — has shaken the most firm convictions, and produced, in the midst of society, a confusion of principles which lends itself to the most fatal attempts. It is by anarchy in doctrines that it paves the way for anarchy in the state.
Page 50 - October, 1814, which is, in some measure, the appendix to it: this is the less doubtful, as this law was presented to the Chambers on the 5th of July — that is to say, one month after the promulgation of the charter. In 1819, at the time when a contrary system prevailed in the Chambers, it was openly proclaimed there that the periodical press was not governed by the enactments of the 8th article.
Page 40 - This is not all. The press tends to no less than to subjugate the sovereignty, and to invade the powers of the state. The pretended organ of public opinion, it aspires to direct the debates of the two Chambers ; it is incontestable that it brings into them the weight of an influence no less fatal than decisive. This domination has assumed, especially within these two or three years, in the Chamber of Deputies, a manifest character of oppression and tyranny. We have seen...
Page 51 - It has paralyzed, as far as has depended on it, the regular exercise of the most essential prerogative of the crown — that of dissolving the elective chamber. By this very thing the constitution of the state is shaken. Your majesty alone retains the power to replace and consolidate it upon its foundations.
Page 245 - I am too profoundly grieved by the evils which afflict, or might threaten my people, not to have sought a means of preventing them. I have, therefore, taken the resolution to abdicate the Crown in favour of my grandson, the duke de Bordeaux.
Page 266 - The legislative power is exercised collectively by the King, the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of Deputies.
Page 245 - You will communicate my intentions to the diplomatic body; and you will acquaint me as soon as possible with the proclamation by which my grandson shall have been recognized King of France, under the name of HENRY V.
Page 92 - Marschal , Nau de Champlouis , comte de Lobau, baron Louis, Millaux, comte d'Estourmel , comte de Montguyon , Levaillant , Tronchon...

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