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"Alas!" replied Alain, with a sigh, "I begin to doubt whether we Legitimists are justified in maintaining a useless loyalty to a sovereign who renders us morally exiles in the land of our birth." "I have no doubt on the subject," said Raoul. "We are not justified on the score of policy, but we have no option at present on the score of honour.
Louis Philippe had no personal popularity to sustain him. Legitimists and Republicans alike ignored his claims to the throne.
Gambetta, in his desire to exclude from political power a numerous category of his fellow-citizens, has many imitators here. Some of the journals insist that not only the Bonapartists, but also the Legitimists and the Orleanists should be disfranchised.
Thus popular at home and abroad, regarded by the Liberals of Europe as the restorer of Greek freedom, and by the Legitimists as a stronger successor to Alexander, he was able to crush the Poles. Enthusiastic Berlin students carried the effigies of Polish leaders in triumph; but not a sword was drawn.
I must run away after dinner to clubs and cafes to learn the last bulletins." "We have nothing like that French Legitimist in the States," said the fair American to herself, "unless we should ever be so silly as to make Legitimists of the ruined gentlemen of the South." Meanwhile Graham Vane went slowly back to his apartment.
Thereupon a burst of ironical laughter, etc. And moreover I have fooled the public in regard to the title. They expected another Rabagas! The conservatives have been vexed because I did not attack the republicans. Similarly the communists would have liked some insults against the legitimists.
A man is not supposed to compromise his opinions because he exchanges social courtesies with those to whom his opinions are hostile. Pray excuse me if I am indiscreet, I speak as a traveller who asks for information: but do the Legitimists really believe that they best serve their cause by declining any mode of competing with its opponents?
"Gentlemen, if I am not Louis XVII., will you tell me who I am?" No one knew how to reply to this question; but many eminent legitimists had come to solemnly declare that the accused was in truth their king, and that he was the rescued orphan of the Temple.
Accordingly, the essay of a royalist fusion between Orleanists and Legitimists did not miscarry only, it broke up their parliamentary fusion, the republican form that they had adopted in common, and it decomposed the party of Order into its original components.
A deep lethargy came upon him; and, after a few hours of apparent insensibility, he breathed his last, at the age of 79 years. Letter to Louis Napoleon. Honors to the memory of Napoleon I. The Arc de l'Étoile. The "Target King." Death of the Duke of Orleans. The Count de Paris. Testimony of Louis Blanc. Opposition of the king. Liberals and Legitimists. Letter from the Prince de Joinville.
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