"Conciliator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... policy which alone could have insured rest for France, that of balancing interests and parties. His own political views being as yet unknown, dark with the excessive brightness of his encircling glory, he could pose as the conciliator of contending factions. The Jacobins were content when they saw the regicide Cambaceres become Second Consul; and friends of constitutional monarchy remembered that the Third Consul, Lebrun, had leanings towards ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose |
