[CatoRenasci]

No bother, my dear fellow. Indeed, we are in hearty agreement that the Comte de Chambord was (can I say it nicely.. no:) a damned fool for insisting on the fleur-de-lis flag. I suspect the French might have been better off with a constitutional monarchy, but there is the counterargument that it would only have fed French delusions of grandeur. Pius was right on with his comment. Oh, how, the value of the French throne had falled from Henry of Navarre's "Paris is worth a Mass."

[Guelph4ever]

The Bourbon flag was simply a symbol of larger issues. What Chambord was saying was that he was not going to be a figure-head king over a liberal country simply to keep the conservatives quiet. If he was going to put his name and his honor on the line, it was going to be for a traditional, conseravtive and Church-based monarchy in the old style, not the mongrel Citizen-king bourgeois monarchy of Louis Phillipe. He was a man of principle and France, like a few other countries, could use more like him.

Vive le roi!