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Royer-Collard said to him after one of these meetings, "Guizot, you will rise high." Guizot demanded an explanation He replied, "You have ambition; you have much head but no heart; you will rise high. When the restoration comes the abbe will be minister, and he will make you secretary-general." Such was the fact eighteen months after.
In this weak position, two individuals, M. de Martignac, as actual head of the Cabinet, without being president, and M. Royer-Collard, as president of the Chamber of Deputies, alone contributed a small degree of strength and reputation to the new Ministry; but they were far from being equal to its difficulties or dangers.
Independent and Complex Positivists: Taine, Renan. LAROMIGUIERE: ROYER-COLLARD. Emerging from the school of Condillac, France saw Laromiguiere who was a sort of softened Condillac, less trenchant, and not insensible to the influence of Rousseau; but he was little more than a clear and elegant professor of philosophy. MAINE DE BIRAN. Maine de Biran was a renovator.
Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard.
I believe it to be merely through habit and remembrance, that any attention is yet paid to the Chamber of Deputies. It belongs to another world; our time is still distant, fortune has thrown you into the only course of life which has now either dignity or utility. It has done well for you and for us." M. Royer-Collard was too ambitious and too speedily cast down.
While at Nismes, I soon became acquainted with the events that had taken place in Paris. M. Royer-Collard wrote to press my return. I set out on the instant, and a few days after my arrival, I was appointed Secretary-General to the Ministry of the Interior, which department the King had just confided to the Abbé de Montesquiou. Documents, No.
COMPOSITION OF THE NEW CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. THE CABINET IN A MAJORITY. ELEMENTS OF THAT MAJORITY, THE CENTRE PROPERLY SO CALLED, AND THE DOCTRINARIANS. TRUE CHARACTER OF THE CENTRE. TRUE CHARACTER OF THE DOCTRINARIANS, AND REAL CAUSE OF THEIR INFLUENCE. M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE AND M. ROYER-COLLARD AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION. ATTITUDE OF THE DOCTRINARIANS IN THE DEBATE ON THE EXCEPTIONAL LAWS. ELECTORAL LAW OF FEBRUARY 5TH, 1817. THE PART I TOOK ON THAT OCCASION. OF THE ACTUAL AND POLITICAL POSITION OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES. MARSHAL GOUVION ST. CYR, AND HIS BILL FOR RECRUITING THE ARMY, OF THE 10TH OF MARCH, 1818. BILL RESPECTING THE PRESS, OF 1819, AND M. DE SERRE. PREPARATORY DISCUSSION OF THESE BILLS IN THE STATE COUNCIL. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE COUNTRY. MODIFICATION OF THE CABINET FROM 1816 TO 1820. IMPERFECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM. ERRORS OF INDIVIDUALS. DISSENSIONS BETWEEN THE CABINET AND THE DOCTRINARIANS. THE DUKE DE RICHELIEU NEGOCIATES, AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, THE ENTIRE RETREAT OF FOREIGN TROOPS FROM FRANCE. HIS SITUATION AND CHARACTER. HE ATTACKS THE BILL ON ELECTIONS. HIS FALL. CABINET OF M. DECAZES. HIS POLITICAL WEAKNESS, NOTWITHSTANDING HIS PARLIAMENTARY SUCCESS. ELECTIONS OF 1819. ELECTION AND NON-ADMISSION OF M. GRÉGOIRE. ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE DE BERRY. FALL OF M. DECAZES. THE DUKE DE RICHELIEU RESUMES OFFICE. HIS ALLIANCE WITH THE RIGHT-HAND PARTY. CHANGE IN THE LAW OF ELECTIONS. DISORGANIZATION OF THE CENTRE, AND PROGRESS OF THE RIGHT-HAND PARTY. SECOND FALL OF THE DUKE DE RICHELIEU. M.
They reminded the public of the royalist laws of 1820. They were opposed by the more liberal men: Royer-Collard and Villemain spoke against them. They went by the name of the "Fieschi laws."
Thiers delivered a public speech upon the law of mortgages, and Royer-Collard approached him with open arms, exclaiming, "Your fortune is made!" In the meantime, M. Thiers, as the holidays were approaching, thought it wise to run down to Aix, which he represented in the chamber of deputies. Since he was last there he had changed his course upon many of the important questions of the day.
Aulaire, had possessed influence under Napoleon; MM. Royer-Collard and Camille Jordan were opposed to the Imperial system. The same judgment, the same opinion upon the events of the day and the chances of the morrow, upon the rights and legitimate interests of the throne and country, suddenly united these men, hitherto unknown to each other.
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