Prove to them, by the consideration with which you surround them, that they are not footmen, and that they ought not to have the souls of footmen.

Give them a place in the state; throw around their uniform some of the _prestige_ which is now the exclusive privilege of the clerical garb." "Do you know what you are asking for ?" "Nothing but what is absolutely necessary.

Remember, Monsignore, that this army, raised to act in the interior of the Pontifical States, will serve you less frequently by the force of its arms, than by the moral authority of its presence.

And pray what authority can it possess in the eyes of your subjects, if the Government affect to despise it ?" "But, admitting that it obtain all the pay and all the consideration that you claim for it, still it will remain open to the remark of the President de Brosses, 'What are warriors who have never in their lives made war ?'" "I admit it.

The consideration accorded by all Frenchmen to the soldier, takes its source in the idea of the dangers he has encountered or may encounter.