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Title: France and the Republic
A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces
During the 'Centennial' Year 1889

Author: William Henry Hurlbert

Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21498]

Language: English

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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
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

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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
surrende