”十四年后，十二月革命 — — 诗人和军官推翻沙皇尼古拉斯一世、实现君主立宪的运动 — — 似乎驳倒了迈斯特的结论。
Fourteen years later, the Decembrist revolt – a movement of poets and army officers to topple Czar Nicholas I and establish a constitutional monarchy – seemed to refute de Maistre’s claim.