Produced by Julia Miller, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) 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 * * * * * 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 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