“The Moniteur contains the organic charter of the Legion of Honor, which, despite the intelligent, oratorical speech of Lucian Bonaparte, seems like a strange invention. It cannot be called nobility: for it does not confer any civil advantages; cannot be called a knightly Order: for every Order had some purpose, but the Legion has none; the special oath of the members to be the defenders of the Board must be the oath of all Frenchmen...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.