United States. Féry cites its constituent congress as an example of patriotism.

“This is not the constituent congress of the United States of America. There the example of the greatest and purest patriotism showed itself in its full light. “This is not the Constituent Assembly of France, and yet consider that the humble Third Estate, that third order in which so many poor men were found, was there, most of them lacking the necessaries of life, in such destitution that even their footwear was not whole! Well then! They did not fail to fulfil without indemnity the task laid upon them. Shall we, then, be the only Assembly of this kind to have sullied itself with a money allowance for its labors before even having begun them? And we should thus belie the era of regeneration that we have consecrated in the dating of our acts. Shall we thus have degenerated from our generous predecessors of 1806? O dear fellow citizens, brothers and friends, let us reflect on what we are about to do, let us turn back from our error and spare ourselves a certain shame in the eyes of the whole universe!