For my part I have done my best as an old and convinced Social-Democrat, and on some important points his opponent, to give a frank and unbiassed study of Clemenceau's fine career. His very mistakes serve only to throw into higher relief his sterling character and the genius which has enabled him to command success. Read aright, his actions do all hang together, and constitute one complete whole. Comprising within himself the brilliant yet thorough capacity of his French countrymen, he has risen when close upon eighty to the height of the terribly responsible position he was forced to fill. Therefore his efforts have been crowned with complete victory. Having forgotten himself in his work, the man Clemenceau will never be forgotten. He will stand out in history as the great statesman of the Great War. And now that he and we have won--our aid, as none knows or appreciates better, having been absolutely indispensable to the French triumph--Clemenceau feels so deeply that France as a whole has shared in the great awakening that, having himself appointed the devout Catholic Marshal Foch generalissimo of the Allied armies, he, of all men, joined in the _Te Deum_ of Thanksgiving in the Cathedral of Lille! The work he has done, the risks he has run, the unshakable determination he has displayed, have raised him high above all petty considerations of politics, creeds, classes, or conditions. Therefore he is the hero of France after her desperate struggle for national existence. INDEX Adulteration, John Bright on, 194 Albert, 16 Amadé, General, 212 Arago, Etienne, 9, 24, 32, 35 Armistice of 1871, 36 Aumale, Duc d', and Boulanger, 95 Bakunin, 50 Barodet, 69, 86, 87 Barrès, M., 265 Basly, M., miners' agent, 180 Bazaine, Marshal, 32, 36, 40 Bebel and Jaurès on the Fleet, 238 ---- and the Social-Democrats, 244 Beesly, Prof., 50 Bellers, John, 234 Benedek, Marshal, 27 Berlin, brutality and greed of, 34 Beslay, 45, 49 Billot, General, 157 Bismarck--the forgery at Ems, 33 Blanc, Louis, 16, 39, 78, 85 Blanqui, 49, 56, 58, 59, 61 "Blessed word," the, 19 Boer War, the, 216, 217 Boisdeffre, General, 157 Bolo Pasha, 273-280 _Bonnet Rouge_, arrest of proprietors, 267 Bordeaux, the Government at, 249 Boulanger, General, 10 Boulanger, General, and Army reforms, 96 ----, as War Minister, 96 ----, candidate for Paris, 101 ----, deprived of his command, 99 ----, downfall, its effect on the influence of Clemenceau, 105 ----, elected for the Nord, 100 ----, enters politics, a candidate for the Nord and the Dordogne, 99 ----, fails to profit by his success, 103 ----, flight and suicide, 104 ----, his duel with M. Floquet, 98 ----, his popularity after the affair Schnäbele, 97 ----, his relations with the Duc d'Aumale, 95 ----, his visits to Paris, 99