The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volumen1

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H.G. Bohn, 1854
 

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Página 424 - Louis, by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre : To all who shall see these present Letters, Greeting.
Página 201 - ... the princes and princesses of his family, and shall be divided amongst them in such manner that the revenue of each shall be in the following proportion ; viz.
Página 173 - The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to...
Página 445 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Página 200 - Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon renounces for himself, his successors and descendants, as well as for all the members of his family, all right of sovereignty and dominion, as well to the French Empire, and the kingdom of Italy, as over every other country.
Página 244 - ... pure sciences alone, schools converted into barracks, literature degraded by censorship or humbled by baseness, national representation perverted, election abolished, the arts enslaved, commerce destroyed, credit annihilated, navigation suppressed, international hatred revived, the people oppressed, or enrolled in the army, paying in blood or taxes the ambition of an unequalled soldier...
Página 446 - The members of the royal family, and the princes of the blood, are peers by right of birth; they sit immediately after the President, but take no part in the deliberations till the age of twenty-five.
Página 148 - Ministers, confounded all authorities, and destroyed the independence of judicial bodies. Considering that the liberty of the press, established and consecrated as one of the rights 'of the nation, has been constantly subjected to the arbitrary...
Página 287 - His sword never left his side, even when sitting in his easy chair, — a sign of tho nobility and superiority of arms, which he wished always to present to the notice of the gentlemen of his kingdom. His orders of chivalry covered his breast, and were suspended with broad -blue ribands over his white waistcoat. His coat of blue His costume and personal appearance. cloth participated by its cut in the two epochs, whose costumes were united in him, — half court, half city.
Página 241 - Due d'Enghien, in a foreign country. He slew him in the ditch of Vincennes by a singular presentiment of crime, which showed him, in this youth, the only armed competitor of the throne against him, or against his race. He conquered Italy, which had been again lost, Germany, Prussia, Holland (reconquered...

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