Since the French activist

Adolphe Thiers

, which would be worth him to be Prime Minister and President of the III Republic, sentenced, that "the king neither administers nor governs, reigns" in his fight against

Charles X

until his dethronement in 1830 by "a king chosen by the people ", popularizing the expression

Rex regnat et non gubernat

that centuries ago the Polish Chancellor

Jan Zamoyski

would have snapped

at

Sigismund III

, the formula

the king reigns, does not govern

has remained as a reference and framework of action of

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