Note 99 — Chapter LXXXIV
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"The Royalists made a mockery of this terror: it was strange to hear them say that this event was the most fortunate thing possible, because we should be relieved from Buonaparte; for the two Chambers would feel the necessity of giving the king absolute power—as if absolute power was a thing to be given."—Mad. de Staël, tom. iii., p. 138. "Yesterday the King received the diplomatic corps. His majesty said to the ambassadors, 'write to your respective courts that I am well, and that the foolish enterprise of that man shall as little disturb the tranquillity of Europe, as it has disturbed mine.'"—Moniteur, March 8.