The Charter of Rights of the Monarchy

The first restoration, then was by an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable state. The huge civil service that had grown under napoleon was similarly retained. Of the hundred and forty three peers created at the beginning of the restoration, a hundred and three of them had been either senators or marshals during the empire. These men were to be coopted, not banished. Ind three quarters were carried over in their posts without any kind of great, counterproductive purge. On the civilian side, there was going to be no more new hiring into the civil service - only those who could afford it. In his guise, louis recognized that if they let returned emigres run around re confiscating