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"They seek to destroy the Revolution by attacking my person: I will defend it, for I am the Revolution." Such were the words uttered by Buonaparte after the failure of the royalist plot of 1804. They are a daring transcript of Louis XIV.'s "L'état, c'est moi."
"Ces hommes qui donnent le beau nom de prudence a leur timidite, et dont la discretion est toujours favorable a l'injustice." Hilliard d'Aubertueil, Considerations sur l'Etat Present de la Colonie Francoise de St. Domingue, 1776. Histoire Generale des Isles de St. Christophe, etc., 1654, par Du Tertre. From a letter by the Jesuit father Le Pers, quoted by Charlevoix, Histoire de St. Domingue, Tom.
But first yes, mon Dieu, she would leave them something to remember her by. She had not a doubt that Gard was still on L'Etat. Nothing else would take this girl across there. The shameless hussy! to go swimming across to see her man with nothing but a white shift on! She could wound Gard through Nance. She could wound Nance through Gard.
The governor, with the consent of the Senate, was to make war, conclude all treaties, make all appointments, pardon all offences, with the full power through his negative of saying what laws should be passed and which enforced. Hamilton's governor would have been not dissimilar to Louis XIV, and could have said with him, "L'état, c'est moi!"
France, it is true, tranquil and secure within her borders, again showed signs of wealth, and was able to pay heavier taxes; but the King wasted them on his wars, his châteaux, and his mistresses, as recklessly as the Surintendant. He had no misgivings as to his right to spend the people's money. From his principle, "L'État, c'est moi," followed the corollary, "The income of the State is mine."
It was one of those moments that come very seldom in our lives, when all the forces in us are sweetly strung, and every chord vibrating gives out full resonance. And yet, this goodness of a noble nature increased Lucien's human tendency to take himself as the centre of things. Do not all of us say more or less, "L'Etat, c'est moi!" with Louis Quatorze?
She coaxed him doubtfully to the descent of the rounded headland facing L'Etat, picking out an easy circuitous way for him, and so got him safely down to her own special pool, hollowed out of the solid granite by centuries of patient grinding on the part of the great boulders within.
Louis XIV. had succeeded his father at the age of five years, in 1643; his nominal reign covered seventy-one years, and throughout the fifty-three years which followed Mazarin's death his declaration "L'État c'est moi" had been politically and socially a truth. He controlled France with an absolute sway; under him she achieved a European ascendency without parallel save in the days of Napoleon.
I've heard say there were ghosts on L'Etat, and now I know it. No good comes of meddling with these things." "But we ought to take him with us." "Take him with us!" almost shrieked Peter. "And let him loose on Sark! Why then?" "Whatever he was last night, he's dead enough now.... Will you help me to get him up, John Trevna?" "Iss, sure! He's got my belt."
He hardly dared to hope that his strategy with the dead man would be of any permanent benefit to him, though there was no knowing. Examination of the body would show that it had been dead for very many years, but his knowledge of the Island superstitions made him doubt if any Sark man would willingly spend a night on L'Etat for a very long time to come.
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