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France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 By: William Henry Hurlbert (1827-1895) |
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A RECORD OF THINGS SEEN AND LEARNED
IN THE FRENCH PROVINCES DURING
THE 'CENTENNIAL' YEAR 1889 BY
WILLIAM HENRY HURLBERT
AUTHOR OF 'IRELAND UNDER COERCION' WITH A MAP LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET 1890 All rights reserved PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1890
by William Henry Hurlbert
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PAGE I. Scope of the book French Republicanism condemned by
Swiss and American experience Its relations to the
French people xxiii II. M. Gambetta's Parliamentary revolution What Germany
owes to the French Republicans Legislative usurpation
in France and the United States xxvi III. The Executive in France, England, and America Liberty
and the hereditary principle General Grant on the
English Monarchy Washington's place in American
history xxxvii IV. The legend of the First Republic A carnival of incapacity
ending in an orgie of crime The French people never
Republican Paris and the provinces The Third Republic
surrendered to the Jacobins, and committed to
persecution and corruption Estimated excess of expenditure
over income from 1879 to 1889, 7,000,000,000 francs
or 280,000,000 l. li V. Danton's maxim, 'To the victors belong the spoils' Comparative
cost of the French and the British Executive
machinery The Republican war against religion. The
present situation as illustrated by past events lxviii VI. Foreign misconceptions of the French people An English
statesman's notion that there are 'five millions of
Atheists' in France Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone the last
English public men who will 'cite the Christian Scriptures
as an authority' Signor Crispi on modern constitutional
government and the French 'principles of 1789' Napoleon
the only 'Titan of the Revolution' The debt of
France for her modern liberty to America and to England lxxvi
VII. The Exposition of 1889 an electoral device Panic of the
Government caused by Parisian support of General
Boulanger Futile attempt of M. Jules Ferry to win back
Conservatives to the Republic Narrow escape of the
Republic at the elections of 1889 Steady increase of
monarchical party since 1885 Weakness of the Republic
as compared with the Second Empire lxxxix VIII. How the Republic maintains itself A million of people
dependent on public employment M. Constans 'opens
Paradise' to 13,000 Mayors Public servants as political
agents Open pressure on the voters Growing strength
of the provinces. The hereditary principle alone can now
restore the independence of the French Executive Diplomatic
dangers of actual situation Socialism or a
Constitutional Monarchy the only alternatives xcvi
CHAPTER I IN THE PAS DE CALAIS Calais Natural and artificial France The provinces and the
departments The practical joke of the First Consulate The
Counts of Charlemagne and the Prefects of Napoleon President
Carnot at Calais Politics and Socialism in Calais Immense
outlay on the port, but works yet unfinished Indifference
of the people A president with a grandfather The 'Great Carnot'
and Napoleon The party of the 'Sick at heart' The Louis XVI. of
the Republic Léon Say and the 'White Mouse' Gambetta's victory
in 1877 Political log rolling, French and American Republican
extravagance and the 'Woollen Stocking' Boulanger and his
legend Wanted a 'Great Frenchman' The Duc d'Aumale
and the Comte de Paris The Republican law of exile The
French people not Republican The Legitimists and the farmers A
French journalist explains the Presidential progress Why
decorations are given 1 22
CHAPTER II IN THE PAS DE CALAIS ( continued ) Boulogne Arthur Young and the Boulonnais Boulogne and Quebec The
English and French types of civilisation A French ecclesiastic
on the religious question The oppressive school law of
1886 The Church and the Concordat Rural communes paying
double for free schools Vexatious regulations to prevent establishment
of free schools All ministers of religion excluded from
school councils Government officers control the whole system Permanent
magistrates also excluded Revolt of the religious
sentiment throughout France against the new system Anxiety
of Jules Ferry to make peace with the Church Energy shown
by the Catholics in resistance St... Continue reading book >>
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