June 21, 1823, under the Restoration, the Sacred Heart addressed a new appeal to France, by the intermediary of Mother Marie of Jesus, religious of the convent of the Oiseaux (Birds), in Paris: “France is always well beloved to My Divine Heart and she will be consecrated to it. But it is necessary that the King be himself the one to consecrate his person, his family and his kingdom to My Divine Heart, which will have him elevated to the altar, thus that they elevate one, in the name of France, in the honor of the Holy Virgin. “I am preparing for France a deluge of graces when she will be consecrated to My Divine Heart, and all the earth will resent the benedictions that I pour out upon her!”

The Restoration did not respond the divine will. It fell in 1830. Heaven insists. In 1843, important revelation of Our Lord to Marie Lataste: “I have chosen France to give her to My Church as a daughter of predilection…. I have sent kings to her, but she has chosen others to her liking. Has she not at all seen, doesn’t she see that I Myself serve her will to punish her, so as to make her lift her eyes toward Me?”

In 1846, it is a warning of the Holy Virgin at La Salette: 
“I can no longer hold back the arm of My Son….”

In 1858, it is the great message of Lourdes, which contains a pressing exhortation: “Penance! Penance! Penance!”