[citation needed] The first book, entitled "Chez nos exilés", relates the interviews conducted by Maurras with André Buffet, head of the political office of the Duke of Orléans and Count Eugène de Lur-Saluces, president of the royalist committees of the South-West.

[citation needed] The third book titled "Jules Lemaître et son ami", dated 1903, brings together 7 articles written by the eponymous French playwright and critic.

[citation needed] Guillaume Bacot, former director of the French Review of the History of Political Ideas, sees in it a "rather disparate, not to say frankly disordered" set[1] but still discerns a guideline: the restoration of the monarchy.

The desire to preserve our French homeland once posed as a postulate, everything is linked, everything is deduced from an ineluctable movement.Far from idealism, Maurras claims to deal with the monarchy as it was and not to rely on a biased view of past centuries.

Moreover, heredity would also free from the political instability caused by the party system.Heredity still frees electoral constraints and the whims of public opinion, allowing in particular this decentralization that the need to control the elections absolutely prevents the Republic from realizing...In the Enquête sur la monarchie, André Buffet and the Duke of Orléans are convinced that the decline of the Monarchy dates back to Louis XIV when he broke with the decentralization to which the two men attribute the longevity and success of the monarchical regime.

The Duke of Orléans therefore promises decentralized institutions and to attach himself to sovereign functions and therefore to the "higher affairs of the nation".

Charles Maurras does not detail the system but enjoins reading the corporatist writings of René de La Tour du Pin on the same subject.

[6] Maurras points to this as proof that even under the reign of Louis XV from 1715 to 1774, France did not experience "disasters comparable to the three invasions of 1814, 1815 and 1870".

Jean-Paul Sartre, aged twenty, read the Enquête sur la monarchie by borrowing a copy from the Library of Letters of the École Normale Supérieure.