ayor--A model
Republican prefect--The Duc de Penthievre--The Orleans family
at Eu--Local popularity of the Comte and Comtesse de Paris--Norman
grievances, old and new--A Protestant movement in
Normandy--American associations with Broglie, La Brede, and
Val Richer--Mr. Bancroft on the ministers of Louis Philippe--The
'military council' of Royalist officers in the Revolution--Louis
Philippe and Thiers--The rights of property under the
Second Empire--The seizure of the Orleans property--The
Jacobin levelling of incomes--The reformer Real as an opulent
count--The Orleans property restored in 1872, as a matter of
'common honesty'--What the princes recovered, and what they
presented to France--The 'wounded conscience' of a nation--The
daughter of Madame de Stael--The present Duc de Broglie and the
anti-religions war--The Conservative republic made impossible--The
Radical Jacobins rule the roast--'The Republic commits
suicide to save itself from slaughter'--Floquet the master of
Carnot--The war against God--Two statesmen of the South--Nimes
and M. Guizot--The religious wars in Languedoc--The
son of M. Guizot at Uzes--Politics in the Gard--Catholics and
Protestants fighting side by side--The late M. Cornelis de Witt--The
hereditary principle in Holland--What the United States
learned from the Netherlands and from England--How the Duke
of York missed an American throne--A Protestant monarchist
in the Lot-et-Garonne--The plums of Agen and the apricots of
Nicole--Coeur de Lion and Bertrand de Boru--The home of
Nostradamus--Why the Germans beat the French--The barber
bard of Languedoc--Scaliger and the Huguenots--Nerac and the
Reine Margot--The 'Lovers' War'--The Revocation and the
Revolution--The ruin of property in 1793--Decline of the wealth
of France--The monarchists of the Aveyron--A banquet of
monarchist mayors--The need of a man in France--'A bolt out
of the blue'--How the Duc d'Orleans demoralised the government--The
young conscript at Clairvaux--Carnot surrenders to
the Commune--A Russian verdict on the republican blunder--The
'Prince' of the people--How the Government has helped the
Comte de Paris--Irregularities of republican taxation--Corsica
and the Correze--France the most heavily taxed country in the
world--Steady and enormous increase of taxation--Cost of collecting
the revenue--Political dishonesty on the stump--The persecution
of ca