Index:Coubertin - The evolution of France under the third republic, 1897.djvu
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The 4th of September, and the National Defence. — The Assembly of Bordeaux. — The Communist Insurrection : Paris recaptured by the French. — First Symptoms of Recuperation. — Decentralization: Party Spirit.
M. Thiers, Head of the State, and Prime Minister. — The Message of November 12, 1872. — The First Presidential Crisis. — Fusion, and the White Flag. — How the Monarchists helped to make the Republic . — Violent Debates . — The Discipline of the Republicans, and the Legislative Elections.
The Constitution of 1875 : Unforeseen Stability. — The Beginnings of the Parliament. — Preludes of a Coup d'Mltat. — Appeal to the Country, and the Electoral Campaign. — A Futile Attempt. — Return to Normal Life. — The Exposition of 1878. —The Marshal resigns.
Composure and Abstention. — A Triple Alternative. — The Conference of London. — M. de Bismarck's Ideas. — Inter- vention of Europe. — At the Congress of Berlin: the First Partition of Turkey. — Disinterestedness appreciated. — The Difficulties of Republican Diplomacy. — Formation of the Triple Alliance.
A Forced Conquest. — Measures well taken and badly ap- preciated.— The Treaty of Bardo. — Lies and Calumnies. — France in Egypt. — The Condominium. — Arabi and the Na- tionalists. — Tergiversations of France: the English bom- bard Alexandria and occupy Cairo. — The "Great Minister."
Governmental Anarchy. — The " Long Ministry." —Legis- lative Work is resumed. — Angry Quarrels between the Extremist Parties. — The Revision of 1884. — Energy of Jules Ferry. — His Asiatic Policy . — March 30, 1885.
Three Colonial Empires. — A National Tradition. — Ob- stacles and Labors. — France beyond the Sea in 1872, and in 1894. — West Africa. — Madagascar. ^ French Asia. — Prob- lems of Indo-China. — Administrative Errors. — The Slug- gishness of French Commerce. — The Educational Question.
The Majority melts away. — The Elections of 1885 : a Reac- tionary Half-victory. — Mistakes and Blundering. — A Brave List of Appropriations. — Minister Rouvier. — General Bou- langer's First Exploits. — Unexpected Scandals. — Election of M. Carnot. — The Committee of the Rue Sfeze. — Exposi- tion of 1889. —The Supreme Court. — The Elections : the End of Boulangism.
The Workingmen's Congress in Berliii. — The Empress Frederick in Paris. — Cronstadt. — A "Novel Situation." — The General Tariff of the Custom-houses. — The Monarchists' "Last Card." — False Calculation. — Financial Ways. — The Elections of 1893. — Minister Casimir-Perier. — The Rus- sian Fleet at Toulon. — National Mourning.
Church and State. — Religious Policy. — The Congress of Mechlin, and the Encyclical Quanta Cnra. — The Designs of Leo Xin. — The Toast of Algiers. — Constitution of the Re- publican Right. — Political Evolution, and Social Evolution. — The Encyclical Rerum Novarum. — Resistance: Declara- tion of the Cardinals. — Immovability of the Sovereign Pon- tiff. —The Results. — The " Great Problem."
Primary Instruction. — The Results of Secularization. — The Teacher. — Insufficiency of Moral Instruction. — Ger- manic Pedagogy. — Schools : Primary, High, and Profes- sional. — Secondary Instruction : the Imperial and the Monastic Stamp. — Overdriving. — The Education of Character.— Schools for Girls. — University Revival. — Students and Pro- fessors. — The Rights of the State.
A New Spectacle. — Patriotism throughout the Ages. — Its Modern Formula. — Contradictory Problems. — A Work of Perseverance and of Confidence. — The Eifect on the Nation. — Officers and Soldiers. — Diverging Tendencies. — A Social- istic Lesson in Things. — Ideal and Patriotism.
The Survival of Ideas. — Foreign Judgments on France. — The Worship of Form. — Unhealthy Scientific and Literary Stagnation. — Influence of Democracy on Letters and Lan- guage. — The Awakening : Taine and Renan. — Retaliation on Immorality. — The French Family and the French Woman. — Decrease of Population. — The Law of Succession, and Malthusianism.
Errors of Valuation. — An Unprecedented Experience. — Universal and Simultaneous Progress. — Political Action: Congress and Elections. — Strikes. — Anarchists. — Intellec- tual Mediums. — Obstacles: Petty Proprietorship. — Alle- manists, Broussists, Guesdists, Blanquists. — Syndicates. — A Second Night of August i. |