You know to your cost, as I to mine, that when it pleased God to call me to this crown, I found France not only all but ruined, but almost entirely lost to Frenchmen.

By the divine favor, by the prayers and the good counsels of my servants who are not in the profession of arms, by the sword of my brave and generous noblesse, from whom I single out not the princes, upon the honor of a gentleman, as the holders of our proudest title, and by my own pains and labors, I have preserved her from perdition.

Let us now preserve her from ruin.

Share, my dear subjects, in this second triumph as you did in the first.

I have not summoned you, like my predecessors, to get your approbation of their own wills.