The Duchess of Berry and the Revolution of 1830 (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: France History / General History / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill PUBLIC OPINION IN view of the conflict that had supervened between the crown and the Two hundred and twenty- one, there was anxiety in both camps concerning the probable verdict of public opinion. The partisans of Charles X. were in nowise discouraged. Order prevailed throughout the realm. Not only was there no financial panic, but public funds rose perceptibly -- a fact mentioned with lively satisfaction by the royalist journals. In its issue of March 20, the Gazette de France said: " It ought never to be lost sight of that nothing but a revolution could bring about a triumph of the democracy, and hence that all calculations based on this triumph are so much the more empty because people would lose a thousand times more than they could gain by it. The admirable instinct of self-interest has correctly divined this high political verity, for everything that has happened in the liberal direction has lowered the funds, while every manifestation of the royal strength has raised them. It is a remarkable thing that the discussions on the Address caused stocks to fall for several days, while the King's reply has sent themup. For a long time facts like this have made people say that the ecus are royalists. When one thinks of the many illusions of the liberal party for these two years past, he cannot help seeing that it has a bandage over its eyes." On its side, the Constitutionnel wrote: -- "It is they who deepen the shadows around the throne, who would like to confine truth to the threshold of the p...