he
Church--Napoleon's University of France--A machine for creating
moral unity--The despotism of 1802 and 1882--The Liberals of
1830--Primary education under M. Guizot--The rights of the
family and the encroachments of the State--Catholic vindication
of Protestant liberty under Louis XIV.--The heirs of M. Guizot
in Normandy and Languedoc--M. de Witt at Val Richer--Three
historic chateaux--The birthplace of Montesquieu at La Brede--The
Abbey of Thomas a-Becket--The Chateau de Broglie--Lisieux--M.
Guizot as a landscape gardener--A Protestant statesman
among the Catholics of the Calvados--The Sieur de Longiumeau and the
sacred right of insurrection--'Moral unity' and 'moral
harmony'--Catholicism in the Calvados, Brittany, and Poitou--Charlotte
Corday--The historic family of De Witt--An election in the Calvados--The
people and the functionaries--Bonnebosq--The Normans and personal
liberty--The procedure of a French election--Mayors with votes in their
sleeves--Glass urns and wooden boxes--Gerrymandering in France and
America--Catholic constituents congratulating their Protestant
candidate--'Vive le roi!'--M. Bocher on two Republican
presidents--Wilsonism and the Norman farmers--The domestic
distilleries--The war against religion in Normandy--'The Church as the
key of trade'--How the officials revise the elections--Prefects
interfering in the elections--A solid Monarchist department--Politics
and the apple crop--The weak point of the Monarchists--The
traditions of Versailles and 'modern high life'--Louis XV. and
Barras--Madame Du Barry and Madame Tallien--The 'noble'
grooms of ignoble _cocottes_--The Legitimists under the Empire--The
war of 1870-71, and the fusion of classes--Historic names
in the French army--Officers and the chateaux--An American
minister and the Comte de Paris--The Monarchist and the Republican
representatives--The Duc de Broglie in the Eure--Architectural
evidence as to the social life of the _ancien regime_--The
war of classes a consequence, not a cause, of the Revolution--The
Vicomte de Noailles and Artemus Ward--Feudal serfs and New
York anti-renters--Jefferson and _lettres de cachet_--The Bastille
and the Tower of London--Don Quixote and the wine skins--The
Chateau d'Eu--Private rights in the 14th century--The 'Nonpareil'
of the world--La Grande Mademoiselle and her lieges at
Eu--Her hospitals and charities--A quick-witted m