an
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.-Omer--The Spanish and
scholastic city of Guy Fawkes and Daniel O'Connell--M. De la
Gorce, the historian of 1848--High character of the
population--Improvement in tone of the French army--Morals of the
soldiers--Devotion of the officers to their profession--Derangement of
the Executive in France by the elective principle--The 'laicisation'
of the schools--Petty persecutions--Children forbidden to
attend the funeral of their priest--The Marist Brethren at Albert--Albert
and the Marechal d'Ancre--A chapter of history in a
name--Little children stinting their own food, to send another
child to school--President Carnot and the nose of M. Ferry--French
irreligion in the United States--The case of Girard
College--Can Christianity be abolished in France?--The declared
object of the Republic--Morals of Artois--Dense population--Fanatics
of the family--Increase of juvenile crime--American
experience of the schools without religion--A New England report
on 'atrocious and flagrant crimes in Massachusetts'--Relative
increase of native white population and native crime in America--An
American Attorney-General calls the public school system
'a poisonous fountain of misery and moral death'--A local
heroine of St.-Omer--The statue of Jacqueline Robins--The
Duke of Marlborough and the Jesuits College--A