13 quotes
Napoleon personifies the ironic and harsh response of the military men of the XIX century to the literary dreams of the XVIII.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
That France may live, the King must return.
At the Sign of Flore (1931)
Of these two powers in conflict, Intelligentsia and Force, which seemed to win in the course of the same century?
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
The French woman is, in France, everywhere a queen: at the salon, the farm, the shop, the large store.
For a French Awakening (1943)
Gallic strength, Roman order, such is, in my opinion, the civil state of our fatherland.
For a French Awakening (1943)
There can be no social peace in the Republic, and social reform is impossible without the king.
The king is so visible that he is almost too responsible for everything: the republic, a collectivity that cannot be responsible for anything, serves as a nickname for everybody and nobody, a good-for-nothing and destructive anonymity.
For a French Awakening (1943)
After the Commune, thousands of workers were shot, while the leaders were allowed to escape; a King of France would have punished the leaders mercilessly, but he would have spared the people.
Inquiry into the Monarchy (1925)
The bourgeoisie does not understand the labour question.
Religion is the first of the powers that can oppose the plutocracies, and especially a religion that is as strongly organised as Catholicism; instituted as a function of the state it loses a large part of its independence and, if money is the master of the state, it loses its outspokenness against money. Material power triumphs without the control of its principal spiritual antagonist.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)
To feel national is to feel royalist.
For a French Awakening (1943)
France was called the 'feminine nation'. It would be better to call it the 'androgyneous people'. It is the androgyne of Plato, the male and female being which grants the sceptre alternately to the mind and to the heart when it does not confer sovereignty, as often happens, to the simultaneous synthesis of both.
For a French Awakening (1943)
Ronsard and Malherbe, Corneille and Bossuet defended in their time the state, the king, the fatherland, property, the family and religion. Romantic literature attacked the laws or the state, public and private discipline, the fatherland, the family and property; an almost unique condition of their success seemed to be to please the opposition, to work towards anarchy.
The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)