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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'
LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
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
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 surrendered to the Jacobins, and committed to persecution and corruption--Estimated excess of expenditure over income from 1879 to 1889, 7,000,000,000 francs or 280,000,000_l._ li
V. Danton's maxim, 'To the victors belong the spoils'--Comparative cost of the French and the British Executive machinery--The Republican war against religion.--The present situation as illustrated by past events lxviii
VI. Foreign misconceptions of the French people--An English statesman's notion that there are 'five millions of Atheists' in France--Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone the last English public men who will 'cite the Christian Scriptures as an authority'--Signor Crispi on modern constitutional government and the French 'principles of 1789'--Napoleon the only 'Titan of the Revolution'--The debt of France for her modern liberty to America and to England lxxvi VII. The Exposition of 1889 an electoral device--Panic of the Government caused by Parisian support of General Boulanger--Futile attempt of M. Jules Ferry to win back Conservatives to the Republic--Narrow escape of the Republic at the elections of 1889--Steady increase of monarchical party since 1885---Weakness of the Republic as compared with the Second Empire lxxxix
