A king who accepts the terms of a government which are impossible, accepts his own overthrow by anticipation.

A well-considered and voluntary abdication is more regal than that daily abdication which is undergone in the degradation of power.

A king saves, if not his life, at least his dignity.

It is more suitable to majesty royal to descend by its own will, than to be cast down headlong.

From the moment when the king is king no longer, the throne becomes the last place in the kingdom.
Be this as it may, the king frankly declared to his ministers his intention of legally executing the constitution, and of associating himself unreservedly and without guile to the will and destiny of the nation.