Chapter Iii—louis Philippe

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Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication.

Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may bedeceived, and grave errors have been seen.

Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In theestablishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had beencut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was arare man.

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