Conservatism and Experiment in French written constitutions, 119; not produced by love of change but desire for order and permanence, 120; Sir Henry Maine on the dislike to change, _ib._; tendency of the French to democratic conservatism, 121; permanent innovations in France, 122; decimal coinage, departmental administration, French university, universal suffrage, representative government, 122, 123; abolition of the republican calendar, 124; permanent innovations in England, _ib._; the Anglican Church, Catholic Emancipation, revolutionary monarchy, 126; opposition of Frenchmen to railways and of Englishmen to the Suez Canal and decimal systems, _ib._; adoption by the English of the French closure, 127. See Change Constable, revolutionised French landscape, 411 Conversation in foreign tongues a rare accomplishment, 25 Country, not an equivalent word to _patrie_, 75 Courage, national, apparent decline in England and France, 261; shrinking from war, _ib._; French courage after Sedan, 263; bottled up in the Paris Commune, _ib._; difference of training in England and France, _ib._; football, duelling, boxing, and bull-fighting, 264; field sports and military service, 265 Cricket in England, 3; not popular in France, 4 Criticisms, international, reasonable and unreasonable, 89 Crosses, alleged removal from French cemeteries, 192; the true story, 193 Cruelty to animals, sympathies of the English and indifference of the French, 52; cruelties of both nations in sport and cookery, 53 Culture of the affections in France, 50; want of it in England, _ib._; example of Queen Victoria, 51 Culture _versus_ Rank, 60 D Dancing in the open air, out of fashion in France, 10; objectionable balls, _ib._ “De,” the particle, supposed to indicate nobility in France, 329; assumed by many of the _bourgeois_, 330; money value in marriage alliances, 355 Debt, disapproved by the French, 46 Decimal system, a permanent innovation in France, 122, 127 Decorum, difference in national ideas, 307; French and English bathing, 308; artists’ models, 309; natural necessities, 310; language, 311; inequalities of strictness, 312; French reserve, 313; at funerals, 313; in literature, 314; divorce reports in France and England, 315; English tolerance of old books, _ib._; Byron and Shakespeare, 316; comic papers, _ib._; the nude in art, 317; realism, 318 Deer in France, 11 Democracy inevitable in France after Mirabeau’s declaration of the sovereignty of the people, 105; resemblance in the growth in France and England, 106; comparison of the two revolutions, 107; government in France, 109 Departmental administration in France, a permanent innovation, 123