famous brands--A
visit to the cardinal archbishop--Employers and employed--The
Catholic workmen's clubs and the Christian corporations--M.
Leon Harmel--The religious education of a factory--How the
workmen Christianised themselves--The conversion of a wife by
a gown--The local authorities discouraging religion--'Planting
Christians like vines'--'The Rights of Man' and capital and
labour--Mediaeval and modern methods compared--Capital and
universal suffrage--Money in the first Revolution--Le Pelletier,
the millionaire, and the mobs of the Palais Royal--The dramatic
justice of a murder--Unwritten chapters of revolutionary history--The
duty of employers--'The Masters' Catechism'--The invasion
of 1870 and the Christian corporations--Modern syndications and
the ancient _maitrise_--Professional syndicates and professional
strikes--Good out of evil--The working men and the upper classes--Count
Albert de Mun--A popular vote against universal suffrage--The
Holy See and the Catholic labour movement in France--The
parochial clergy and the laymen--The Wesleyans and the
Catholics--Privileged purveyors--The financial aspect of the
Catholic corporations--A revival of the old guilds--The national
system of the corporations--Provincial and general assemblies--The
German _Cultur-Kampf_ and the French Catholic clubs--The
Republican attack on religion--Religious freedom and freedom
from religion--The State church of unbelief--The 'moral unity'
men--Napoleon and Guizot--The Jacobins of 1792 and 1879--Moral
unity under Louis XIV.--Alva and M. Jules Ferry--A
chapter of the Revolution at Reims--Mr. Carlyle's little 'murder
of about eight persons'--The political influence of massacres--The
'days of September' and the elections to the Convention--How
they chose Jacobin deputies at Reims--The documentary
story of the eight murders--Mayors under the Republic--The
defence of Lille--How the Republic voted a monument and Louis
Philippe built it--Desecration of a great cathedral--The legend of
Ruhl and the sacred ampulla--The demolition of St.-Nicaise and
the bargain of Santerre--How Napoleon disciplined the Faubourg
St.-Antoine--Is the Cathedral of Reims in danger?--Its restoration
under the cardinal archbishop--The budget of public worship--Expenses
of the administration--The salaries of the clergy, Protestant
and Catholic--Jewish rabbis paid less than servants in the
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