ctory
discipline--French industry and the Terror--'Two aristocrats'
called in to save a confiscated property--St.-Gobain and the Eiffel
Tower--Royal luxuries in 1673, popular necessaries of life in 1889--How
great mirrors are cast--Beauty of the processes--The
coming age of glass--Glass pavements and roofs--The hereditary
principle among the working classes--Practical co-operation of
capital and labour--Schools, asylums, workmen's houses and
gardens, social clubs, and savings-banks--Co-operative pension
funds--A great economic family--Of 2,650 workpeople more than
50 per cent. employed for more than ten years--A subterranean
lake--The crypts of St.-Gobain and the Cisterns of Constantinople--A
spectral gondolier--A Venetian promenade with coloured
lanterns underground 125-161

CHAPTER VIII

IN THE AISNE--(_continued_)

Laon, Chauny, and St.-Gobain--The French Revolution and Spanish
soda--The most extensive chemical works in France--A miniature
Rotterdam--A Cite Ouvriere--The religious war in Chauny--Local
and immigrant labour--M. Allain-Targe on Boulanger, the
High Court of Justice, common sense and common honesty---French
elections, matters of bargain and sale--'The blackguardocracy'--Sketches
by a Republican minister--French freemasonry
a persecuting sect--Their power in the Government--Utterly unlike
the freemasonry of England, Germany, or America--The war
against Christianity in France and Spanish America--1867 and
the industrial progress of France--Extent of the chemical works
of France--Retiring pensions for workmen--Chauny in the olden
time--How the honest burghers freed their city in 1432--A contrast
with the rioters of the Bastille in 1789--Henri IV. and La
Belle Gabrielle--Chauny and the Revolution--The murder of
d'Estaing--Chauny acclaims the Restoration, and gives a gold
medal to the Prussian commandant--Public charity and public
education in the 12th century--Benevolent foundations pillaged
in 1793--Law and order under the _ancien regime_--A canal in
the law courts--An enterprising American turns rubbish into
indiarubber at Chauny 162-185

CHAPTER IX

IN THE AISNE--(_continued_)

Laon--A feudal fortress home--Chauny and the green monkeys of
Rabelais--The festival of the jongleurs and the learned dogs--A
damsel of Chauny on English g