I think sire, that you would be wrong to give the slightest publicity to this writing, and even to communicate it to the person who asked you for it.

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The Importance of General Chazal in Colonial Politics. Minister Chazal to Prince Leopold about a booklet he wrote "Completion of the work of 1830" in which he openly pleads for the invasion of the Netherlands, for the reunification of Catholics under one crown, and his ambitions to create a colonial overseas empire, disregarding the neutral status of the newly born Belgian state. KMLKG, Papiers Chazal, 65/1, Chazal to the Duke of Brabant, June 28, 1859. The work may have been commissioned by Leopold I, who had sent his son to the study so that he could gain experience with the complex political landscape.