I have long entertained that hope; and my resolution has only changed at the moment when I could hope no longer.

Remember the moment when I quitted Paris: disorder was at its height--the licence of the press and the insolence of parties knew no bounds.

Then, I avow, if you had offered to me the constitution, I should not have thought it my duty to accept it.
"All has changed.

You have manifested the desire to re-establish order; you have revised many of the articles; the will of the people is no longer doubtful to me, and therefore I accept the constitution under better auspices.

I freely renounce the co-operation I had claimed in this work, and I declare that when I have renounced it no other but myself has any right to claim it.