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★ 153 ★ new, French manner, who also only recognize the republic under its representative form and claim self-evidently that there is a only a republic where there would be primary and electoral assemblies, directories and councils, municipal offices and freedom trees, who are miserable philistines, empty of spirit and poor in heart, scribblers, looking to hide their righteousness and inner ignorance under the colorful flags of triumphant fashion, under the imposing mask of cosmopolitanism, and they deserve opponents like the obscurants who will bring to life with absolute perfection the battle of frogs and mice.

18. Doesn't the king become a king as a result of your heartfelt sense of value?

19. What was day one for other princes will be an ordinary day in the life for the king. Most reigns are only day one. Day one is the life of these ephemeral ones. Then they die and then their relics are variously abused. And so, most so-called reigns are interregnums; the princes are only the red holy wax that sanctions commands.

20. What are medals? Will-o'-the-wisps or falling stars. A ribbon should be a Milky Way, typically it is only a rainbow, an edge of the thunderstorm. A letter, a picture from the queen; those would be medals, awards of the highest kind; awards that sparked magnificent deeds. Deserving housewives should also receive similar badges of honor.

21. It is true that the queen does not have a political sphere of action, but she has a large domestic sphere of action. Her excellence befits her for the education of her sex, the supervision of children in their first years, in the household manners, the