Transcription: That the Louisiana sash, that we are not prepared to regret, that we are still more in their favor than what they can desire, and that the future, a road to independence, is the one that is French, and that France, in the end, will have to take advantage of what they have not obtained from the government of a European metropole, something that is not eternal, that is more natural. What they are doing for us, the sentiment of in the region commune, la parente, le langage, les meurs perpétue la métier. Napoleon, 1803.
