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FOUCHÉ Joseph. (1759-1820).
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FOUCHÉ Joseph (1759-1820).
Autograph MANUSCRIT, Extrait d'une lettre de commerce, Paris August 1, 1814| 4 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections (wetness and small tear).
Remarkable political analysis of the Restoration, in the form of a letter from a merchant traveling from London to Marseille and then to Paris: "For six months I have already traveled through a large part of Europe. [...] everywhere, people were talking to me about business, but the business of Europe"| it was a "passion", a "contagion" as he awaited the opening of the Congress in Vienna. He passed the island of Elba, "the prison of the man who will no longer raise the storms of the continent, but who closely observes these storms that have not yet subsided"... It's the Bourbons and Napoleon we're worried about: "Is the restoration of the Bourbons guaranteed by the love of France? Is Napoleon's expulsion irrevocable?"... Fouché examined the word "Restoration" used by the Bourbons, which he found inappropriate for an idea conceived by "ten to twelve Bourbonians", to which foreign armies had lent their hand. Since the royal session of June 4, discontent had erupted: the cautious French were in no hurry to break the yoke. "Whether you call it what you will, a reformation ordinance or a constitutional charter, this charter is not the constitution that France needed or wanted| she cannot live with the loss of her greatness [...], she feels humiliated, both at home and in Europe. Such a state of affairs cannot last in a people accustomed to glory, in a people in love with freedom, with a passion that is all the stronger for having moderated itself. The French people are saddened, and their armies shudder at the sight of their mourning. It is impossible for them to settle in peace in this degradation of their political existence. The word must be settled: Bonaparte's doctrine appeared to be that of France itself. [...] Napoleon's return to his throne would not only seem possible, it would seem easy"... The men most capable of reopening for Napoleon the roads to the empire he had lost, liked above all to defend and enhance the high qualities that had brought him to supreme rank: "These qualities persuade them that Napoleon was capable of understanding in the days of his misfortune that there is even greater grandeur in organizing societies well than in governing them well, that a prince who gives nations even good laws is far above the one who instructs them to make good laws themselves | and that finally, had he conquered the whole world, any prince today who thinks, speaks and acts otherwise will be put in the same line as that fool [Ferdinand VII] for whom it would have been as fortunate as for all Spain to remain always in Valençay"... Etc.
Autograph MANUSCRIT, Extrait d'une lettre de commerce, Paris August 1, 1814| 4 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections (wetness and small tear).
Remarkable political analysis of the Restoration, in the form of a letter from a merchant traveling from London to Marseille and then to Paris: "For six months I have already traveled through a large part of Europe. [...] everywhere, people were talking to me about business, but the business of Europe"| it was a "passion", a "contagion" as he awaited the opening of the Congress in Vienna. He passed the island of Elba, "the prison of the man who will no longer raise the storms of the continent, but who closely observes these storms that have not yet subsided"... It's the Bourbons and Napoleon we're worried about: "Is the restoration of the Bourbons guaranteed by the love of France? Is Napoleon's expulsion irrevocable?"... Fouché examined the word "Restoration" used by the Bourbons, which he found inappropriate for an idea conceived by "ten to twelve Bourbonians", to which foreign armies had lent their hand. Since the royal session of June 4, discontent had erupted: the cautious French were in no hurry to break the yoke. "Whether you call it what you will, a reformation ordinance or a constitutional charter, this charter is not the constitution that France needed or wanted| she cannot live with the loss of her greatness [...], she feels humiliated, both at home and in Europe. Such a state of affairs cannot last in a people accustomed to glory, in a people in love with freedom, with a passion that is all the stronger for having moderated itself. The French people are saddened, and their armies shudder at the sight of their mourning. It is impossible for them to settle in peace in this degradation of their political existence. The word must be settled: Bonaparte's doctrine appeared to be that of France itself. [...] Napoleon's return to his throne would not only seem possible, it would seem easy"... The men most capable of reopening for Napoleon the roads to the empire he had lost, liked above all to defend and enhance the high qualities that had brought him to supreme rank: "These qualities persuade them that Napoleon was capable of understanding in the days of his misfortune that there is even greater grandeur in organizing societies well than in governing them well, that a prince who gives nations even good laws is far above the one who instructs them to make good laws themselves | and that finally, had he conquered the whole world, any prince today who thinks, speaks and acts otherwise will be put in the same line as that fool [Ferdinand VII] for whom it would have been as fortunate as for all Spain to remain always in Valençay"... Etc.