France and the Republic | Page 7

'Lovers' War'--The Revocation and the Revolution--The ruin of property in 1793--Decline of the wealth of France--The monarchists of the Aveyron--A banquet of monarchist mayors--The need of a man in France--'A bolt out of the blue'--How the Duc d'Orléans demoralised the government--The young conscript at Clairvaux--Carnot surrenders to the Commune--A Russian verdict on the republican blunder--The 'Prince' of the people--How the Government has helped the Comte de Paris--Irregularities of republican taxation--Corsica and the Corrèze--France the most heavily taxed country in the world--Steady and enormous increase of taxation--Cost of collecting the revenue--Political dishonesty on the stump--The persecution of candidates--Invasion of private life--Bullying the magistrates--Public servants ordered to the polls--Curés fined for preaching religious duty--The Conférences du Sud-Ouest--M. Princeteau at Bordeaux--The fête of the Bastille at Bordeaux and N?mes--A 'Fils de Dieu' at N?mes--Socialism at Alais--The suppression of inheritances--'Property a privilege to be abolished'--'Opulence an infamy'--The Socialists and the Government--Persecution of the Protestants--'Pray, what is God?'--Strength of Socialism in South-eastern France--Two typical departments--Socialism in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne--Historic France in the Calvados--Boulanger at Marseilles--A Socialist coachman at Arles--A great Catholic employer of labour at Marseilles--The largest glycerine works in the world--Church candles and dynamite--Taxing industries to death--Dutch competition with France--A Christian corporation in Marseilles--'An economical kitchen'--An uphill fight for law and order--The Christians of the 4th and of the 19th centuries--The Radicals hold the bridle--Shall France be Christian or Nihilist?--Ernest Renan on the situation in 1872--Jules Simon on the situation in 1882--The 'civic duties' of man and the guillotine--What will the situation be in 1892? 437-515
MAP OF FRANCE at end of book
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Errata
P. 24, 11 lines from top, for rival read rural.
P. 64, line 1, for de Royes read de Royer.
P. 91, line 6 from top. M. Spuller, Prefect of the Somme in 1880, was the brother of the present Minister of Foreign Affairs, not the Minister himself.
P. 96, line 5 from top, for Montauban read Montaudon.
P. 105, line 4 from bottom, for being read long.
P. 395, 3 lines from top, for Abbeys read Abbaye.
Wherever found, for de Fallières read Fallières.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
As I have not wished to swell the bulk of this book by references, and as many statements made in it concerning men and things of the first Republic may seem to my readers to need verification, I subjoin a brief list of authorities consulted by me in this connection. It is incomplete, but will be found to cover every material point concerning the epoch to which it refers.
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INTRODUCTION
I
This volume is neither a diary nor a narrative. To have given it either of these forms, each of which has its obvious advantages, would have extended it beyond all reasonable limits. It is simply a selection from my very full memoranda of a series of visits paid to different parts of France during the year 1889.
These visits would never have been made, had not my previous acquaintance with France and with French affairs, going back now--such as it is--to the early days of the Second Empire, given me reasonable ground to hope that I might get some touch of the actual life and opinions of the people in the places to which I went. My motive for making these visits was the fact that what it has become the fashion to call 'parliamentary government,' or, in other words, the unchecked