statesroom

Updated: January 29, 2026

Installed officially in the statesroom, it seemed to be at once master of the position, waiting for the two upper orders to come to it. Mirabeau saw this with that rapid insight into effects and consequences which constitutes, to a considerable extent, the orator's genius.

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6