I have been detained as a prisoner in my own palace; instead of guards, jailers have been imposed on me.

I have been rendered responsible for a government that has been torn from my grasp.

Though charged to preserve the dignity of France in relation to foreign powers, I have been deprived of the right of declaring peace or war.

Your constitution is a perpetual contradiction between the titles with which it invests me, and the functions it denies me.

I am only the responsible chief of anarchy, and the seditious power of the clubs wrests from you the power you have wrested from me.