The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]