[Discours] - Bertrand, général. ([Paris : Impr. Portmann, 1851)
Preface is headed with a quote from Virgil: Medendo Turnus aegrescit which is repeated at the end.
Bertrand explains that he is not opposed to the formation of an upper house as long as it is an elected one. He cites instances during the French Revolution where the elected upper house (Conseil des anciens) was able to reject some of the more extreme measures of the lower house (Conseil des cinq-cents).
Spine title: French socialist & labour broadsides.
Keywords: Legislative bodies -- France; France -- Politics and government -- 1848-1852.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.