Make an exception of him, as God made an exception of him when He gave him genius, and call him back _without condition_ to his country and his daughter's grave.
I have written these words without the knowledge of any.

Naturally I should have preferred, as a woman, to have addressed them through the mediation of the tender-hearted Empress Eugenie; but, a wife myself, I felt it would be harder for her Majesty to pardon an offence against the Emperor Napoleon, than it could be for the Emperor.
And I am driven by an irresistible impulse to your Majesty's feet to ask this grace.

It is a woman's voice, sire, which dares to utter what many yearn for in silence.

I have believed in Napoleon III.

Passionately loving the democracy, I have understood from the beginning that it was to be served throughout Europe in you and by you.