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1822 June 30.

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

2. Intellectuals

Thus far they are sure to agree. Meantime the occasions of /for/ disagreement can never altogether be wanting. With the Monarch the first object is of course to provide for his personal pleasures /gratification/. But for this no funds which it is in the power of the Minister to provide can ever be sufficient. Buildings suffice of themselves to create an appetite the satiation of which is impossible To add factitious to natural unpleasantness in one single spot during a course of years cost France under Lewis the 14th a sum - recollection is not able to state in what degree below or above the whole expence of government during that time

The whole stock of the external instruments of felicity the whole of the allotment attached to the Official Establishment is regarded by his Minister as being at his disposal. But the Monarch has his associates in both sexes and living instruments of pleasure in all its forms - in a word his favorites. These favorites are not themselves men of business or women of business But each such favorite is himself or herself as the case may be the centre of a circle of dependents among whom men of business and men desiring to be men of business are abundant. A situation becomes vacant /vacancy takes place/ and now comes the contest: the contest between the Monarchs dependents and the Minister's dependents

Meantime the process of depredation and oppression takes its /goes on its/ course: the torment of the people goes on encreasing: encreasing and in such sort that it /communes itself to/ finds its way to the breast even to the Royal or Imperial breast

How so? is it that in that breast there is or ever did exist or ever can exist any real sympathy for the misery of the people? Not until it has first existed in the breast of his equestrian Statue /bronze similitude/. But, be the Palace where it may the discontented swarm in it. Next to none can have all they wish for: and all who /every one who/ can not have all they wish for are /he wishes for is/ more or less discontented. So

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