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the United
States learned from the Netherlands and from England--How the Duke
of York missed an American throne--A Protestant monarchist in the
Lot-et-Garonne--The plums of Agen and the apricots of Nicole--Coeur
de Lion and Bertrand de Boru--The home of Nostradamus--Why the
Germans beat the French--The barber bard of Languedoc--Scaliger and

the Huguenots--Nérac and the Reine Margot--The '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
Nîmes--A 'Fils de Dieu' at Nîmes--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-Rhône--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.

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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