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Excerpt from The Duchess of Angouleme and the Two Restorations
This history begins at Calais on the 24th of April, 1814, at the moment when the Duchess of Angouleme had just landed with Louis XVIII., the Prince of Conde, and the Duke of Bourbon. Between France and royalty a sort of Lamourette kiss had been exchanged. Credulous persons fancied that the iron age had gone, never to return; that the golden age had come, and would be eternal. The sky is blue. A superb spring day makes all things radiant. Not a breath of air ruf?es the glassy surface of the sea. N 0 one thinks about present disasters, the mourning country, or the strangers who tread its sacred soil. To enthusiastic royalists, the Republic and the Em pire are only an evil dream that vanishes at dawn. Rmigres and purchasers of national property experi ence the same exaltation. No one suspects the pro found hatred which, at the end of three months, will divide minds that now seem to be in perfect accord. It is a sort of truce of God In the midst of social and political success. It is the eclogue, the idyl which precedes the tragedy.
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