Chapter XIX · THE INFALLIBLE BENEDICTION
T. H. Joyce translation
The Pope approved.
When the mails brought to Rome intelligence of the event of the 2d of December, the Pope went to a review held by General Gémeau, and begged him to congratulate Prince Louis Napoléon for him.
There was a precedent for this.
The hand of Pius IX. remained extended over France, when it had become the Empire.
Then, under the shadow of this benediction, began an era of prosperity.
36 "Archives of the house of Orange," page 125, Supplement.