This pamphlet, written between winter and spring of 1814 to prepare the return of the Bourbons to the throne of France, was to Chateaubriand resolved one of those instinctive gestures born of imagination and dynamited all the bridges behind him. The author mission was to convince the French that, to avoid a new republic or the establishment of a foreign government, it was necessary to restore confidence in the Bourbons and together end the absolute power, giving France a constitutional monarchy. But the coldness and lucidity of political journalist mix unpredictably and lead to a disturbing tide. the dictator appears, not the tyrant Napoleon Caesarism in the birth of a modern myth that is not copy of old no one glimpse. Chateaubriand wants to outline a particular portrait, but ends by describing in detail the dictators who have seen govern the twentieth century.