Madame, may a noble function characterize you,Įxcite your ambition, and fix your attentions. If it is possible that you are capable of such plots. Intrigue, cabals, bloody projects will precipitate your fall, This worthy negotiation is the trueĭuty of a queen. Reconciles you to the love of the French. Wisely applied, strengthens the father's crown, saves it for the son, and Oh, Madame, bear in mind that you are motherĪnd wife employ all your credit for the return of Princes. No longer in my eyes this falsely accused Queen, this attractive Queen, but an If the foreigner bears arms into France, you are Is restrained by fear of the laws, I will tell you, Madame, what I did not say Who is observed near the crowd of useless hirelings, and that she You, I threw my observations between that sword and you, but today when I see Yes, Madame, when I saw the sword raised against I never could persuade myself that a Princess, high within the Its calamities, I alone, in a time of disorder and storm, had the force to take I declared myself with the same energy when the blindness of despots punished such a noble audacity.īut when all the Empire held you responsible for I did not wait for the present time of freedom to express myself thus. My goal, Madam, is to speak to you frankly. Little accustomed to the language with which one speaks to royalty, I will not employ the adulation of courtiers by dedicating this unusual production to you.
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