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Helena and during his stay there, all that the most ferocious libels of the Buonapartists have ever dared to say or to insinuate it would still remain a theme of unmixed wonder and regret, that Napoleon Buonaparte should have stooped to visit on his head the wrongs which, if they were wrongs, proceeded not from the governor of St. Helena, but from the English ministry, whose servant he was.
In some places there were rascals who called us Buonapartists, and gendarmes who took us to the town hall and made us shout "Vive le Roi!" Buche and some of the old soldiers hated this; but what did it matter who was king, and what these fools wanted us to shout?
"It is the Buonapartists who say that," replied the vicomte without looking at Pierre. "At the present time it is difficult to know the real state of French public opinion." "Bonaparte has said so," remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic smile. It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his remarks at him, though without looking at him.
In spite of the increased prosperity of the country, there was general disaffection. There were four parties the Orleanists, who held by Louis Philippe and his minister Guizot, and whose badge was the tricolour; the Legitimists, who retained their loyalty to the exiled Henry, and whose symbol was the white Bourbon flag; the Buonapartists; and the Republicans, whose badge was the red cap and flag.
Four columns were occupied by an article on the dramatic works of Denis, and three with a dissertation on the existence of Troy." Napoleon's Journey to Frejus Voyage to Elba his conduct and occupations there Discontents in France Return of Prisoners of War Jealousy of the Army Union of the Jacobins and Buonapartists Their intrigues Napoleon escapes from Elba.
The reports so zealously circulated by the Buonapartists, that some at least of the great European powers were aware, and approved, of the meditated debarkation at Cannes and the hopes thus nourished among the French people, that the new revolution would not disturb the peace of the world were very speedily at an end.
Since the formation of the Polignac Cabinet, from which everything was to be apprehended, I endeavoured to maintain a certain degree of interest in this assembly of all opposing parties, Constitutionalists, Republicans, and Buonapartists, which, in the moment of a crisis, might exercise itself such preponderating influence on the destiny of the country.
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