M.
Royer-Collard had just given his first lecture at the Sorbonne to an audience of three hundred persons against the philosophy of Locke and Condillac (1811).

Napoleon, having read the lecture, says on the following day to Talleyrand: "Do you know, Monsieur le Grand-Electeur, that a new and very important philosophy is appearing in my University...

which may well rid us entirely of the ideologists by killing them on the spot with reason ?"--Royer-Collard, on being informed of this eulogium, remarked to some of his friends: "The Emperor is mistaken.

Descartes is more disobedient to despotism than Locke."] [Footnote 6245: Mignet, "Notices et Portraits." (Eulogy of M.de Tracy.)] [Footnote 6246: J.-B.

Say, "Traite d'economie-politique," 2d ed., 1814 (Notice).