Abstract
The famous speech, delivered by the deputy La Bourdonnaye in November 1815, at the beginning of the second Restoration, can be considered as an archetypal model, which precociously reveals a political far right temperament. It is particularly characterized by a deep propensity to compulsively revive memory conflicts, notwithstanding the consequent political marginality this will entail. By asking for "irons, executioners and tortures" against the main troublemakers of the Hundred Days, by way of an amnesty, the ultra-royalist member of Parliament intends to use this last short interlude as an indictment of the French Revolution and definitively get rid of its legacy, through a fully Utopian will of retrospective action, which is all the more paradoxical as it seems to mime to the point of writing a pastiche of the revolutionary prose, particularly that of Jean-Paul Marat himself.
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