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Joseph FOUCHÉ (1759-1820) Minister of Police. L.A. (minute), Dresden May 9 [1816], to an Excellency; 1 page in-8. Draft letter from exile concerning the Abbé de PRADT and his Mémoires historiques sur la révolution d'Espagne. Fouché thanks him for sending the brochure: "it is written with more wit than depth, there is sometimes more research than discernment in his reflections. What he says in defense of the proscribed is weak. The need to obey established authority is the safeguard of all governments; for legitimate power itself, it is the surest guarantee of the prompt submission of peoples. Canon Escoïquiz's interview with NAPOLEON confirms what experience has taught us all too well, that princes are often at fault and almost always incapable of recognizing it. The note he has added since Napoleon's fall is a blight. The canon thinks, no doubt, that what dishonors is more useful to rest and favor than the pride of the soul. I consider myself fortunate to be a mere spectator today, and to have only to observe the foolishness of others". He asks for the abbé's brochure on the Warsaw embassy...

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Joseph FOUCHÉ (1759-1820) Minister of Police. L.A. (minute), Dresden May 9 [1816], to an Excellency; 1 page in-8. Draft letter from exile concerning the Abbé de PRADT and his Mémoires historiques sur la révolution d'Espagne. Fouché thanks him for sending the brochure: "it is written with more wit than depth, there is sometimes more research than discernment in his reflections. What he says in defense of the proscribed is weak. The need to obey established authority is the safeguard of all governments; for legitimate power itself, it is the surest guarantee of the prompt submission of peoples. Canon Escoïquiz's interview with NAPOLEON confirms what experience has taught us all too well, that princes are often at fault and almost always incapable of recognizing it. The note he has added since Napoleon's fall is a blight. The canon thinks, no doubt, that what dishonors is more useful to rest and favor than the pride of the soul. I consider myself fortunate to be a mere spectator today, and to have only to observe the foolishness of others". He asks for the abbé's brochure on the Warsaw embassy...

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