{"id":5641,"date":"2024-01-08T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2023-12-15T03:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:32:02","slug":"eugenes-concern-for-the-welfare-of-his-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"EUGENE&#8217;S CONCERN FOR THE WELFARE OF HIS CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Marseilles had a reputation of not being overly favorable to King Louis Philippe, with occasional protests against him erupting. The King had consequently decided that the proposed railway line would not go to Marseilles. Eugene wrote to him to make him aware of the consequences to his popularity of this decision. He had noted in his diary in 1842:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>April 21: I would be happy if my comments inclined the king to modify a plan so disastrous for our city! Nobody could doubt whence came this act of generosity and this would be the bishop, whose solicitude extends to all, who secured it for his people. The ingrates would profit like the others.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s Diary, 21 April 1842, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The King relented to this pressure and the railway from Lyons to Marseilles was built and inaugurated in January 1848.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.\u201d (Theodore Roosevelt)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marseilles had a reputation of not being overly favorable to King Louis Philippe, with occasional protests against him erupting. The King had consequently decided that the proposed railway line would not go to Marseilles. Eugene wrote to him to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}