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A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) By: Edwin Emerson (1869-1959) |
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BY EDWIN EMERSON, Jr. Member of the American Historical Association, New York
Historical Society, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia,
Honorary Member of the Royal Philo Historical Society
of Bavaria, etc., etc. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
GEORG GOTTFRIED GERVINUS ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTEEN COLORED PLATES AND
THIRTY TWO FULL PAGE, HALF TONE CUTS
AND TWO MAPS IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME TWO [Illustration] NEW YORK P.F. COLLIER AND SON MCMII
COPYRIGHT, 1900 By EDWIN EMERSON, Jr. [Illustration]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TWO
FULL PAGES IN COLOR THE FIRST STEAM RAILWAY. Painted by Edward L. Henry Frontispiece BALAKLAVA. Painted by Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler) SOLFERINO. Painted by E. Meissonier LAST MOMENTS OF MAXIMILIAN. Painted by J. Paul Laurens
FULL PAGES IN BLACK AND WHITE AMERICAN INVENTORS. Painted by C. Schussele THE KING OF ROME. Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence LORD BYRON. Painted by Maurin BEETHOVEN AND HIS ADMIRERS. Painted by A. Grafle QUEEN VICTORIA TAKING THE OATH. Painted by Sir George Hayter LORD TENNYSON. Painted by Frederic Sandys WASHINGTON IRVING AND HIS FRIENDS. Painted by Daniel Huntington THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN. Painted by Gustave Doré WAGNER AND LISZT. Painted by W. Beckmann OPENING OF THE OPERA. Painted by Edouard Detaille EXECUTION OF SEPOY REBELS. Painted by Verestchagin THE EMPEROR OF CHINA RECEIVING THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
1816
[Sidenote: Parliamentary rule in France] [Sidenote: Revival of French letters] An era of peace and reconstruction had begun. After a generation of war and
turmoil France was started on her new career of parliamentary government.
The brief period of retaliation ended with the so called amnesty act of
January, which condemned Napoleon and all his relatives to perpetual exile.
The Chambers now entered into a prolonged discussion of the propositions
for a new election law. The Ministry was headed by the Duc de Richelieu,
who had taken the place of Talleyrand and Fouché. The latter was compelled
to leave France forever. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, who succeeded Davoust,
reorganized the army on a permanent footing of military equality which
satisfied even Napoleon's veterans. In the Chambers, the Comte d'Artois
represented the ultra royalist right wing, while the left was brilliantly
led by Lafayette, Manuel, and Benjamin Constant. Guizot, during the same
year, for the first time ascended the tribune as spokesman of the moderate
party the so called Doctrinaires. Chateaubriand so offended the king by
his book "La Monarchie selon la Charte" that his name was crossed from the
list of the Council of State. Yet he remained the foremost man of letters
in France. [Sidenote: Béranger] Béranger was the foremost lyric poet. A typical song by him is that
rendered by Thackeray: With pensive eyes the little room I view,
Where, in my youth, I weathered it so long;
With a wild mistress, a stanch friend or two,
And a light heart still breaking into song:
Making a mock of life, and all its cares,
Rich in the glory of my rising sun,
Lightly I vaulted up four pair of stairs,
In the brave days when I was twenty one. Yes; 'tis a garret let him know't who will
There was my bed full hard it was and small;
My table there and I decipher still
Half a lame couplet charcoaled on the wall.
Ye joys, that Time hath swept with him away,
Come to mine eyes, ye dreams of love and fun;
For you I pawned my watch how many a day,
In the brave days when I was twenty one. And see my little Lizette, first of all;
She comes with pouting lips and sparkling eyes;
Behold, how roguishly she pins her shawl
Across the narrow easement, curtain wise;
Now by the bed her petticoat glides down,
And when did woman look the worse in none?
I have heard since who paid for many a gown,
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