Archivo: The evolution of France under the third republic (1897) (14780167574)

Descripción: Identifier: evolutionoffranc00coub (find matches) Title: The evolution of France under the third republic Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Coubertin, Pierre de, 1863-1937 Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928. tr Subjects: Publisher: New York (etc.) T. Y. Crowell and company Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ht by this coarse farce, andevery one set about discovering the name of this M.X , as to whom M. Andrieux pretended unwilling-ness to give any explanation; no one knew what toinvent; one day it was a question of an ambassadoraccredited to the government of the Republic, and thenext day of a person nearly connected with the head ofthe State. All these calumnies had their echo abroad; sover-eigns felt themselves in peril of being insulted in thepersons of their representatives, and the German pressinsinuated, in high glee, that henceforth it would besufficient to send plain charges daffaires to the Repub-lic. It became necessary to demand excuses from theSwiss government for a serious insult to France duringthe carnival of Berne.^ A despicable attempt to dis- 1 Words uttered in the Chamber by M. Kibot, President of the Council. 2 An international cavalcade contained a group representing France;the head of the State and his ministers were shown handcuffed, and beingled away by gendarmes. Text Appearing After Image: A. RIBOT, DEPUTY AND PRIME MINISTER. THE TlilUMPH OF THE REPUBLIC. 259 credit it was aimed at the Savings Bank and came nearcausing a panic.^ Every moment we felt that we hadbeen betrayed; now a journal, an agency for politicalnews, was denounced as having been sold abroad.The most resounding accusation was formulated againstM. Cl^menceau, by M. D^roulede, in terms of indig-nant eloquence; the leader of the radical party paid,on that day, by seeing all hands forsake his, for theimmoral pleasure which he had enjoyed of gambling inpolitics as men gamble on Change, of feeding publicopinion on dangerous chimeras, of continually impedingthe progress of business; his whole political existencehad had but one aim, to destroy, and but one means,intrigue. Men are most often moved by the ardentdesire to surpass, to supplant each other; this man wasnot anxious to win himself, it sufficed him to preventothers from winning; he desired only a negative power,and loved to exercise it unexpectedly; his Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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