Qualities which obtain influence

Character of Louis Napoleon.

Tocqueville's comments on the above conversation

Tocqueville on Novels

Intellectual and moral inferiority of the age

Education of French women

'Messe d'une heure'

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Torpor of Roman Government

Interference with marriages

Ampère expects Piedmont to take possession of Rome

Does not think that Naples will submit to Piedmont

Wishes of Naples only negative

Ampère's reading.

Inaction of Louis Philippe

Tocqueville would not submit to be a minister without power

Mistaken independence of party

Could not court popularity

Reform came too late

Tocqueville wished for a double election of the President.

Centralisation useful to a usurper

England in the American War

Mr. Senior's report of M. de Montalembert's speech in 1854