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PROCLAMATION OF THE DUCHESS D'ANGOULEME
-- JUNE 26, 1815
Her Royal Highness the Duchess D'Angouleme.
If the voice of your legitimate King has
not yet reached you, I now make you hear it.
It is in his name, in virtue of the powers he has confided to me,
that I address you.
Faithful Frenchmen join the daughter of your Kings. She does not
bring you war; she speaks to you only of peace and union. She
laments the frightful calamities brought upon you by treason and
perjury; she cannot look without terror to those of which war may
still render you the victims.
Frenchmen, in the name of the country, of your families, of all
that you hold most dear and sacred upon earth, rise all, join
yourselves to me to secure the triumph of the paternal views of
the best of Kings.
Frenchmen, time is precious, victorious armies advance; let a
truly national movement, and the expression of our fidelity to
our King, at once put an end to a war, not undertaken from
ambition and the love of conquest, but from necessity of saving
France and Europe.
Frenchmen, raise the standard of fidelity, and you shall see me
in the midst of you.
MARIA THERESA
London, June 26, 1815.
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