[History of the Girondists, Volume I by Alphonse de Lamartine]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Girondists, Volume I BOOK VI 15/97
The constitution has rendered you the greatest monarch in the world; your attachment to it will place your majesty amongst those kings most beloved by the people.
Strong by our union, we shall soon feel its salutary effects.
To purify the legislation, support public credit, and crush anarchy,--such is our duty, such are our wishes.
Such are yours, sire; and the blessing of the French nation will be the recompence." This day awakened hope once more in the hearts of the king and queen. They believed they had again found their subjects; and the people believed that they had again found their king.
All recollections of what had passed at Varennes seemed buried in oblivion; and popularity had one of those sudden blasts that drive away the clouds in the sky for a short space, and deceive even those who have learnt to mistrust them.
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