Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
The King, Louis XVIII., who had no confidence either in the capacity of M. de Montmorency or the judgment of M. de Châteaubriand, was desirous that M. de Villèle himself should repair to Verona, to maintain the prudent policy which circumstances required. M. de Villèle objected.
Villèle replied, "You succeeded against him by aid of royalism: you cannot succeed against me but by aid of revolution." Both prophecies came true. The alliance of Chateaubriand with the newspaper turned out the Ministry in 1827, and the Monarchy in 1830. In September 1789, the liberty of the press was only four months old, and the reign of opinion was beginning on the Continent.
M. de Martignac was a man of good faith, but many who boasted of supporting him were not so, and perhaps M. de Villele was right when he wrote to Charles X. in June, 1828: "I could serve Your Majesty only with the light and the character God has given me.
POSITION OF M. DE VILLÈLE ON ASSUMING POWER. HE FINDS HIMSELF ENGAGED WITH THE LEFT AND THE CONSPIRACIES. CHARACTER OF THE CONSPIRACIES. ESTIMATE OF THEIR MOTIVES. THEIR CONNECTION WITH SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION. M. DE LA FAYETTE. M. MANUEL. M. D'ARGENSON. THEIR ATTITUDE IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. FAILURE OF THE CONSPIRACIES, AND CAUSES THEREOF. M.
M. Bertin de Veaux, the more decided politician of the two, held M. de Villèle in high esteem, and lived in familiar intimacy with him.
M. de la Bourdonnaye led their passions, M. de Villèle their interests, and M. de Bonald their ideas; three men well suited to their parts, for they excelled respectively, the first in fiery attack, the second in prudent and patient manoeuvring, and the third in specious, subtle, and elevated exposition; and all three, although unconnected by any previous intimacy, applied their varied talents with unflinching perseverance to the common cause.
That evening he wrote to M. Villele, President of the Council of Ministers: "In general I have been content with the ceremony and the appearance of the people; but I wish to know the whole truth, and I charge you to see M. Delavau, and to know from him if the reality corresponds to appearances, if there was any talk against the government and the clergy.
I wish to know all, and I trust to you to leave me in ignorance of nothing." M. de Villele was not a flatterer. He responded discreetly, but without concealing the truth: "The aspect of the people," he wrote, "permitted the thoughts agitating its spirit to be recognized. We were following the King at a slight distance and could judge very well of it.
Canning imagined that France would employ the threats of her allies as a show of force to compel Spain to join her in an attack on British commerce in the West Indies, while Villèle suspected that the British defence of the political independence of Spain was to be recompensed by the cession of some Spanish colonies in America.
What then can you do to bring back those times when the constitution of this House was an object of veneration to the people? Even as much as Strafford and Laud could do to bring back the days of the Tudors; as much as Bonner and Gardiner could do to bring back the days of Hildebrand; as much as Villele and Polignac could do to bring back the days of Louis the Fourteenth.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking