'But for that Jacobinical law which prescribes the registration of an endless list of jurors, and has no other real object than to take away all influence from well-born people,' he said to Mathilde, on the eve of the drawing by lot of the thirty-six jurors for the assize, 'I could have answered for the verdict.
– Sans cette loi jacobine qui a prescrit la formation d’une liste innombrable de jurés, et qui n’a d’autre but réel que d’enlever toute influence aux gens bien nés, disait-il à Mathilde la veille du tirage au sort des trente-six jurés de la session, j’aurais répondu du verdict.