enquete_ and local
susceptibilities shall have been duly consulted. Save by special
decree of the President of the Republic, not even the name of a
commune may be altered.

[Footnote 518: Among general treatises on the
French commune may be mentioned M. Block,
Entretiens sur l'administration; la commune (Paris,
1884); L. Bequet, Traite de la commune (Paris,
1888); P. Andre and F. Marin, La loi sur
l'organisation municipale du 5 avril 1884 (Paris,
1884); and F. Grelot, Loi du 5 avril 1884 (Paris,
1889). The best and most recent extensive work is
L. Morgand, La loi municipale, 2 vols. (7th ed.,
Paris, 1907). The most convenient brief discussion
in French is in Block, Dictionnaire de
l'administration francaise, I., 738-852. In English
a good description is in A. Shaw, Municipal
Government in Continental Europe (New York, 1897),
and a fuller and more recent one in W. B. Munro,
The Government of European Cities, 1-108. On
municipal elections the best work is M. J.
Saint-Lager, Elections municipales (6th ed., Paris,
1904). Worthy of mention are Chardenet, Panhard,
and Gerard, Les elections municipales (Paris,
1896), and J. Dorlhac, De l'electorat politique:
etude sur la capacite electorale et les conditions
d'exercise du droit de vote (Paris, 1890). An
excellent study is P. Lavergne, Du pouvoir central
et des conseils municipaux, in _Revue Generale
d'Administration_, 1900. See also A. G. Desbats, Le
budget municipal (Paris, 1895); M. Peletant, De
l'organisation de la police (Dijon, 1899); and R.
Griffin, Les biens communaux en France (Paris,
1899). On the government of Paris the reader may be
referred to G. Artigues, Le regime municipal de la
ville de Paris (Paris, 1898), and M. Block,
L'Administration de la ville de Paris et du
departement de la Seine (Paris, 1898). Excellent