Thomas Paine,

Rights of Man (1791-2; 1915 edn.), 90.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa,

The Leopard (English tr., 1960), 28.

Marquess of Salisbury, quoted in Dominic Lieven,

The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914 (1992), 237.

Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in David Cannadine,

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990), 698-9.

Arno J. Mayer,

The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War (1981), 304-5.

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