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The Blue Sky

Like all constitutional monarchies, the Restoration was a transitional regime; it used up its energies in self-made contradictions and was incapable of planning any sort of future for itself.

The Préfet of Police, who was living in a dream, wrote in his daily bulletin de Paris: 'the most perfect tranquility continues to reign in all parts of the capital. No event worthy of attention is recorded in the reports that have come through to me.'