"It is a fact that universal suffrage, formerly feared by the Government as a species of monster, no longer frightens …"

"Charles X, that much-diffamed King, and of whom M. Émile Ollivier was enabled to say that he was "aflame for the nati…"

"More attractive than Louis XVIII, but less prudent also, his brother, the Count d'Artois, Charles X, did not know, as…"

"This insurrection had something in common with the ideas of the doctrinaires, of the liberals who had drawn up the Ad…"

"[You are] the son of Saint-Louis."

"It anti-clericalism] was the major current in a rising tide of hostility against Charles X and his government."

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"