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NAPOLEON III (1808-1873).
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NAPOLEON III (1808-1873).
L.S. "Napoleon Louis Bonaparte", Citadel of Ham 22 May 1841|
3 pages and a quarter in-8.
Protest by the prisoner of Ham, against the illegality
of his detention, and the inhumanity of his treatment.
[Intended for the press, this "Protest" bears at the top a note
from another hand for insertion in a newspaper].
"In the nine months that I have been in the hands of the French government
I have patiently endured all the outrages, but I do not want to remain silent
any longer and allow oppression through my silence. [...] Politics
has its rights which I do not contest| that the government acts towards
me as towards its enemy and that it removes me the means to harm him,
it will be just| but on the contrary it will be inconsequential and petty if it
treats me son of a king, nephew of an emperor and allied to all the rulers of
Europe, like a vulgar prisoner "... French prince by birth,
he is entitled to respect and consideration... " As for my legal position the Peer Court
has created for me an exceptional sentence. By condemning me
to a perpetual prison it only legalized the fate that
made me a prisoner of war. It tried to ally humanity with politics
by inflicting me the softest sentence as long as possible "... It complains
of vexatious measures in force in Ham and which make that in the middle of
" this France that the head of my family made so grane, I am like
an excommunicated of the thirteenth century, everyone flees at my approach "...
None of these measures were taken towards the ministers of Charles X
whose chambers he occupies. "And yet the ministers were not
born on the steps of the throne. They had not been sentenced to simple
imprisonment, but to a more severe punishment, deportation. They were not
finally the representatives of a cause which is the object of the veneration
of France "... One joins an
L.S. "Napoleon Louis Bonaparte", Citadel of Ham 22 May 1841|
3 pages and a quarter in-8.
Protest by the prisoner of Ham, against the illegality
of his detention, and the inhumanity of his treatment.
[Intended for the press, this "Protest" bears at the top a note
from another hand for insertion in a newspaper].
"In the nine months that I have been in the hands of the French government
I have patiently endured all the outrages, but I do not want to remain silent
any longer and allow oppression through my silence. [...] Politics
has its rights which I do not contest| that the government acts towards
me as towards its enemy and that it removes me the means to harm him,
it will be just| but on the contrary it will be inconsequential and petty if it
treats me son of a king, nephew of an emperor and allied to all the rulers of
Europe, like a vulgar prisoner "... French prince by birth,
he is entitled to respect and consideration... " As for my legal position the Peer Court
has created for me an exceptional sentence. By condemning me
to a perpetual prison it only legalized the fate that
made me a prisoner of war. It tried to ally humanity with politics
by inflicting me the softest sentence as long as possible "... It complains
of vexatious measures in force in Ham and which make that in the middle of
" this France that the head of my family made so grane, I am like
an excommunicated of the thirteenth century, everyone flees at my approach "...
None of these measures were taken towards the ministers of Charles X
whose chambers he occupies. "And yet the ministers were not
born on the steps of the throne. They had not been sentenced to simple
imprisonment, but to a more severe punishment, deportation. They were not
finally the representatives of a cause which is the object of the veneration
of France "... One joins an