monarchy

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They will see in it, and not unnaturally, nothing but a successful attempt of the revolutionary part to degrade Monarchy, supported by English jealousy of French influence. I am not at all surprised that Spaniards should view with suspicion any proceeding whatever on the part of France, and that they should imagine there was some intention to slight the Regent and his authority.

M. (François) Guizot - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 6)

68 31 réactionnaires: 'reactionary. This word means little to an American, but France has constantly been talking, more or less seriously, of reactions to previously existing states of affairs, as from republic to monarchy. 68 32

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon