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Excerpt from Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 2
The same warning v'oice which had so boldly upbraided the vices of Louis XV., calling on the guilty sovereign to repent ere the hour of repentance should have once more gone by, now ushered in the opening reign with accents of prophetic woe.
Jean of Beauvais, Bishop of Senez, was enjoined to preach the funeral sermon of the deceased monarch, whom he had so unsparingly censured in all the pomp and pride of his kingly power. The austere prelate belonged to the strict and um compromising portion of the French clergy; he fulfilled his arduous task with mournful but courageous severity. The aspect of perishable mortality could not awe him into pitying and treacherous silence, or make him ?atter, with lying lips, the many errors of the royal dead. He spared them not openly alluding to the unpopularity of Louis XV. During the latter years of his reign, he uttered this striking and - for ah solute sovereigns - ever-memorable remark The people, said he, solemnly, have not perhaps the right of complaining; but theirs is at least the right of remaining silent. Their silence, then, becomes the lesson of kings.
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