Identifier: evolutionoffranc00coub (find matches)
Title: The evolution of France under the third republic
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coubertin, Pierre de, 1863-1937 Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928. tr
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Publisher: New York (etc.) T. Y. Crowell and company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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es of the NationalAssembly. They did not wish to take the governmentback there; they shrank before the danger of extend-ing the municipal franchises, and the members fromParis have not ceased to occupy in Parliament, andbefore the government, a place apart, made up of alittle respect and much distrust. And, although experience reassured the timid, althoughlater events have demonstrated the falsity of the signsindicated by the Parisian barometer, people have notlost the habit, in moments of trouble, uncertainty, andanguish, of turning towards the great city, as they askthemselves, What does Paris think of it ? AndParis replied by a word of command which France nolonger obeys. The crisis which every one foresaw, and which brokeout on May 24, 1873, was paradoxical in this respect,that, on the one hand, when the country heard M.Thiers appeal, it sent him, to found th^ Republic, menof the Left party, whose advent hastened its fall; andthat, on the other hand, by giving him a successor less
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MARSHAL MACMAHON, DUG DE MAGENTA, AND SECOND PRESIDENTOF THE REPUBLIC. EARLY TEARS OF THE REPUBLIC, 35 attached to the republican form, the monarchists con-tributed to the strengthening of the government whosedefinitive establishment they wished to prevent. A slight disagreement between M. Jules Simon,Minister of Public Education, and his colleagues, causedthe ministry to be recast at the assembling of Parlia-ment after the Easter holidays. MM. Casimir-Perierand Berenger entered the Council. This caused theRight some uneasiness, and the battle began, under theform of obstructive questions which had already be-come the custom. The Due de Broglie led the assault.For the last time M. Thiers set forth his policy, andproved the necessity of the Republic which arose fromthe impossibility of the monarchy. He rallied no oneto his cause, not even from the ranks of those whowere hesitating ; but he had, at least, the good fortuneto be able to make his retreat with a frank, precisespeech, whose

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