Identifier : evolutionoffranc00coub ( find matches )
Title : The evolution of France under the third republic
Year : 1897 ( 1890s )
Authors : Coubertin, Pierre de, 1863-1937 Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928. tr
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Publisher : New York (etc.) T. Y. Crowell and company
Contributing Library : Robarts - University of Toronto
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not in its details, remainedabove party, where Gambetta had raised it aloft onthat first day, in the place where nations deposit theirarks of the covenant. With still greater wisdom, those who governed sup-pressed the anti-republican remarks which escaped thegenerals between two manoeuvres. The ministers andthe head of the State himself contented themselveswith the rather curt and sometimes rather disdainfulsalutes which they received from the military authori-ties. For a long time the name of the Republic wasomitted from the formal addresses and the orders ofthe day ; certain radical newspapers waxed indignantover this, and raised a cry of treason; in high placesconfident serenity was maintained. It was known thatthe lawyers and men of humble extraction, raised to thehighest posts in the State, often by talent, but some-times, also, by luck, must lack prestige with the gen-erals ; nevertheless, no one doubted the absolute devotionand patriotism of the latter. The day came when Presi-
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M. SADI-CARNOT, FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC. TEE NATION ARMED. 359 dent Carnot, at the end of the grand manoeuvres, couldreview the troops, and when the enthusiastic crowdhailed him with acclamations. The higher officersgrouped themselves about him, touched, at last, bythe enlightened solicitude, the unalterable confidenceshown by the Republic to its soldiers; and when theRepublic gave the French army the Russian army asits sister, their hearts were won; they forgot that thecommander-in-chief was a civilian ; moreover, destinyhad in store for him, as recompense, the death of asoldier. During the five-and-twenty years that France haslived in a state of armed peace, her regiments havebeen renewed sufficiently often to permit of ones mak-ing an attempt to form a general judgment as to theresults attained; results numerous and sufficiently un-expected, on one point, at least. Three classes of citi-zens have passed under the flags, ? peasants, working-men, and men of the middle clas

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