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Bureaucracy

CHAPTER IX
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Its influence was not wielded by a Cardinal Richelieu or a Cardinal Mazarin; it was in the hands of a species of Cardinal de Fleury, who, timid for over five years, turned bold for one day, injudiciously bold.

Later on, the "Doctrine" did more, with impunity, at Saint-Merri, than Charles X.pretended to do in July, 1830.

If the section on the censorship so foolishly introduced into the new charter had been omitted, journalism also would have had its Saint-Merri.

The younger Branch could have legally carried out Charles X.'s plan.
"Remain where you are, head of a bureau under Baudoyer," went on des Lupeaulx.

"Have the nerve to do this; make yourself a true politician; put ideas and generous impulses aside; attend only to your functions; don't say a word to your new director; don't help him with a suggestion; and do nothing yourself without his order.


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