Reims--The capital of the French kings--Clotilde and Clovis, Jeanne d'Arc and Urban II.--Vineyards and factories--The wines of Champagne known and unknown--The red wine of Bouzy--Mr. Canning and still Champagne--The syndication of famous brands--A visit to the cardinal archbishop--Employers and employed--The Catholic workmen's clubs and the Christian corporations--M. Leon Harmel--The religious education of a factory--How the workmen Christianised themselves--The conversion of a wife by a gown--The local authorities discouraging religion--'Planting Christians like vines'--'The Rights of Man' and capital and labour--Mediaeval and modern methods compared--Capital and universal suffrage--Money in the first Revolution--Le Pelletier, the millionaire, and the mobs of the Palais Royal--The dramatic justice of a murder--Unwritten chapters of revolutionary history--The duty of employers--'The Masters' Catechism'--The invasion of 1870 and the Christian corporations--Modern syndications and the ancient _maitrise_--Professional syndicates and professional strikes--Good out of evil--The working men and the upper classes--Count Albert de Mun--A popular vote against universal suffrage--The Holy See and the Catholic labour movement in France--The parochial clergy and the laymen--The Wesleyans and the Catholics--Privileged purveyors--The financial aspect of the Catholic corporations--A revival of the old guilds--The national system of the corporations--Provincial and general assemblies--The German _Cultur-Kampf_ and the French Catholic clubs--The Republican attack on religion--Religious freedom and freedom from religion--The State church of unbelief--The 'moral unity' men--Napoleon and Guizot--The Jacobins of 1792 and 1879--Moral unity under Louis XIV.--Alva and M. Jules Ferry--A chapter of the Revolution at Reims--Mr. Carlyle's little 'murder of about eight persons'--The political influence of massacres--The 'days of September' and the elections to the Convention--How they chose Jacobin deputies at Reims--The documentary story of the eight murders--Mayors under the Republic--The defence of Lille--How the Republic voted a monument and Louis Philippe built it--Desecration of a great cathedral--The legend of Ruhl and the sacred ampulla--The demolition of St.-Nicaise and the bargain of Santerre--How Napoleon disciplined the Faubourg St.-Antoine--Is the Cathedral of Reims in danger?--Its restoration under the cardinal archbishop--The budget of public worship--Expenses of the administration--The salaries of the clergy, Protestant and Catholic--Jewish rabbis paid less than servants in the Ministere--Steady cutting down of the budget--No statistics of religious opinion in France--A Benedictine archbishop--Great increase of the religious sentiment in Reims--The Church driven by the Republic into opposition--Leon Say and the present Government--The