May I be deceived in my conjectures, for I am going from Paris, as Camillus my patron departed from an ungrateful country, wishing it every kind of prosperity.

I have no occasion to have been an emperor like Diocletian to know that the fine lettuces of Salernum, which are far superior to the empire of the East, are quite equal to the gay scarf which a municipal authority wears, and the uneasiness with which a Jacobin journalist returns to his home in the evening, fearing always lest he should fall into an ambuscade of the cut-throats of the general.

For me it was not to establish two chambers that I first mounted the tricolour cockade!" X.
Such was the general tone of the press, such the exhaustless laughter which this young man diffused, like the Aristophanes of an irritated people.

He accustomed it to revile men, majesty, misfortune, and worth.
The day came when he required for himself and for the young and lovely woman whom he adored, that pity which he had destroyed in the people.

He found, in his turn, only the brutal derision of the multitude, and he himself then became sad and sorry for the first and last time.
The people, all whose political idea is from the senses, could not at all comprehend why the statesmen of the Assembly should impose upon them a fugitive king, out of respect for abstract royalty.