We are not far from the Vatican, where sits the real Minister of Arms." "He will urge another objection." "What will it be ?" "That if he send our regiments to serve their apprenticeship in Africa, they will bring back French ideas." "That is an accident, impossible to prevent.

But console yourself with the reflection that it is perfectly immaterial whether the French ideas are brought into your country by your soldiers or by ours.

Besides, this is an article which so easily eludes the vigilance of the custom-house, that the railways are already bringing it in daily, and you will soon have a large stock on hand.

And after all, where's the great evil?
All men who have studied us without prejudice, know that French ideas are ideas of order and liberty, of conservatism and progress, of labour and honesty, of culture and industry.

The country in which French ideas abound the most is France, and France, Monsignore, is in good health.".