Note 312 — BOOK X[262]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Chateaubriand is here himself misled and unconsciously calumniates the poor prefects. M. de Villèle, better informed than he, wrote on the 8th of August 1827:
"The prefects are alarmed at the mere idea of a general election. They say that, if it were held this year, the result would be detestable."—B.