"[2] This professor endeavored to collect accounts of the reigns of Honoré V and of his brother and successor, Prince Florestan, and to translate them from Italian to French, for the purpose of better understanding the causes of the ever-increasing anti-monarchist movements, especially in former parts of the Principality like Menton and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

One ordinance, dated from 1815, suggested that Prince Honoré V was not only miserly but greedy, that he brought even "the benches of the parish church, which some persons had built at their own expense",[2] under his control, for his own profit.

[3] France, who were neglecting to garrison Monaco, gave up the territory to instead be a protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia with the treaty of Stupinigi.

[4] His focus was on the crippled economy of Monaco; he raised taxes and tried to restore the tobacco plant his grandfather Honoré III had founded but which had been closed by the government of Turin.

[5] He endeavored to open factories and initiate citrus farm cooperatives in order put people to work, generate production, and alleviate poverty.