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Excerpt from Memoir of Count De Montalembert, Vol. 2 of 2: Peer of France Deputy for the Department of Doubs This letter is dated Villersexel, 10th December 1839, and is marked by his own hand in red ink as being his answer to "the Abbé Lacordaire upon aristocracy." This, we may remark in passing, as well as all the other letters which passed between the two, is written in that intimate and tender style of tutoiement used only by near relations and loving friends - which makes still more remarkable the decided and sometimes almost severe tone of dissent from his friend's opinion taken by the writer. "It ought to be well understood between us, so far as I am concerned, that I renounce equally the ancient monarchy and the ancient aristocracy, such as our fathers knew them in 1789 - that is to say, in a state of degeneration and servitude; in one word, I renounce what is called the ancient regime. The partisans who now call themselves Royalists are perfectly aware of this; and the 'Gazette de France,' copying an article from the 'Gazette du Midi,' did me justice solemnly the other day on this point, by the assertion 'that there was not in France an individual more anti-Royalist' than myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.