Everywhere commerce and the arts are flourishing; everywhere new means of communication, like so many new arteries in the body of the state, establish within it new relations. Our great industrial centres have recovered all their activity; religion, more consolidated, smiles in all hearts; our ports are full, confidence is born again, and France breathes once more!"
Partout fleurissent le commerce et les arts; partout des voies nouvelles de communication, comme autant d’artères nouvelles dans le corps de l’État, y établissent des rapports nouveaux; nos grands centres manufacturiers ont repris leur activité; la religion, plus affermie, sourit à tous les coeurs; nos ports sont pleins, la confiance renaît, et enfin la France respire!...»