. Memoirs of the comte de Rambuteau . g a debate on the Sunday Labour ques-tion :— My dear Rambuteau,—I will answer M. Frangois Delessert directlywhen he addresses me directly; he has already done so often enough, notto shrink from doing so again ; he will always find me ready to answercourteously questions that are asked me courteously. If he is deputy ofParis, I am deputy of Aix. I am also Minister of the King, and alwaysprepared to reply to every appeal, provided it be made in suitable word scandal hurts me, and I say so. Twice you have accepted therole of intermediary. You will b
. Memoirs of the comte de Rambuteau . g a debate on the Sunday Labour ques-tion :— My dear Rambuteau,—I will answer M. Frangois Delessert directlywhen he addresses me directly; he has already done so often enough, notto shrink from doing so again ; he will always find me ready to answercourteously questions that are asked me courteously. If he is deputy ofParis, I am deputy of Aix. I am also Minister of the King, and alwaysprepared to reply to every appeal, provided it be made in suitable word scandal hurts me, and I say so. Twice you have accepted therole of intermediary. You will be good enough to transmit my answer tohim whether it pleases him or not. The Administration of Public Worksis not the source of scandal; it presents a spectacle of activity that is quite asmoral and useful as that of indolence; it does not fix the days of labour,&c., it neither prohibits nor permits Sunday employment. The workmenare paid by the piece, and may choose their own time for doing the work. November Witi i^th, DVBVFE - y</t^!j-(xn^: flelior^ DuiirdmParis <n^ - ^r/. tfZ^, (.y^f/iJejje,a^ i^ta-yrz/H^ii^c COMTE DE RAMBUTEAU 213 talents and intelligence, and your special aptitude forreporting on the Budget, you might make a good Secretaryof State. But you have neither the gifts nor the eloquenceneeded in a member of the Council. If you were a Guizot,a Broglie, or a Mole, I should say to you: Stay in theChamber, risk the vicissitude of political life, and you mayyet have your day of power ! But to be a Minister alwayssubordinate to another Minister, no matter how excellentmay be your work in your own department; to see yourfuture at the mercy of the reverses or the faults of yourchief; to fall at last while engaged in noble enterprises andlaborious toils that merit the highest approval—that isto be simply a journeyman Minister, nothing more. Youdeserve a better fate. You may repeatedly make oneof a Ministry, and yet leave no results to show that
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