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Baraguay d'Hilliers and Randon

Lent in the Provinces

Chenonceaux

Montalembert's speech .

Cinq Mars

Appearance of prosperity

Petite culture in Touraine

Tyranny more mischievous than civil war

Centralisation of Louis XIV. a means of taxation

Under Louis Napoleon, centralisation more powerful than ever

Power of the Préfet

Courts of Law tools of the Executive

Préfet's candidate must succeed

Empire could not sustain a defeat

Loss of aristocracy in France .

Napoleon estranged Legitimists by the murder of the Duc d'Enghien.

Louis Philippe attempted to govern through the middle classes

Temporary restoration of aristocratic power under the republic.

Overthrown by the second Empire .

Legitimists inferior to their ancestors

Dulness of modern society and books

Effects of competition

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Letters in 1854-5.

Tocqueville attends the Academy

Proposed visit to Germany

Return to France .

English adulation of Louis Napoleon

Mismanagement of Crimean War

Continental disparagement of England

Necessity for a conscription in England .

Disastrous effects of the war for English aristocracy.

Peace premature

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Despotism of Louis Napoleon consolidated by it

Centralisation in Algeria

Criticism of Mr. Senior's Article

Places Louis Napoleon too high

English alliances not dependent on the Empire

Louis Napoleon will covet the Rhine

Childish admiration of Emperor by British public

Real friends of England are the friends of her institutions

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Extracts from Mr. Senior's Article.

Description of political parties

Imperialists

Legitimists

Orleanists

Orleanist-Fusionists form the bulk of the Royalists

Legitimists unfit for public life

Republican party not to be despised

Parliamentarians

Desire only free institutions

No public opinion expressed in the Provinces .

Power of Centralisation.

Increased under Louis Philippe

Power of the Préfet

Foreign policy of Louis Napoleon .

Of former French Sovereigns.

Invasion of Rome prepared in 1847

Eastern question, a legacy from Louis Philippe

Fault as an administrator

Mismanagement of the war

His Ministers mere clerks

Free institutions may secure his throne

English Alliance

Russian influence .

Revolutions followed by despotism

Lessons taught by history

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Enjoyment of home

Fall of Sebastopol

Cost of the war

Russia dangerous to Europe

How to restrain her

Progress in the East

No public excitement in France

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Journal in 1856.

The · Ancien Régime',

Master of Paris, Master of France

Opposition to Suez Canal

Mischievous effect of English Opposition

Expenditure under the Empire

Effect of Opposition to the Suez Canal

Tripartite Treaty.

"Friponnerie' of the Government

Tripartite Treaty

Suez Canal

French floating batteries

Fortifications of Malta

Emperor's orders to Canrobert

A campaign must be managed on the spot

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Flatness of society in Paris

Dexterity of Louis Napoleon .

Is maintained by the fear of the 'Rouges'

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Duc de Nemours' letter .

Tocqueville disapproves of contingent promises

Empire rests on the army and the people

Slavery of the Press

Public speaking in France

English and French speakers

American speakers

Length of speeches

French public men

Lamartine

Falloux

Foreign French

Narvaez and Kossuth

French conversers .

Montalembert

Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle

Tu and vous .

Feeling respecting heretics

Prejudices of the Ancien Régime

French poetry

Fashion in Literature

Montalembert's changes of opinion.

Increasing population of Paris

Its dangerous character .

No right to relief .

Sudden influx of workmen

Soldiers likely to side with the people

Lamoricière's heroism

June 1848

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French army

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National characteristics .

Change in French only apparent

Martin's History of France

He is a centraliser and an absolutist

Secret police.

French army

Russian army

French navy :

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Napoleon indifferent to the navy

Mr. Senior's Athens journal

Otho and Louis Napoleon

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'

Influence of Madame Récamier

Duchesse de Dino .

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Letters in 1858-9.

Failing health

Mr. Senior's visit to Sir John Boileau

Promise of Lord Stanley

Character of Guizot

Spectacle afforded by English Politics

Tocqueville at Cannes

Louis Napoleon's loss of popularity

Death of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Grief it occasioned in England

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Journal at Tocqueville in 1861.

Madame de Tocqueville's house at Valognes .

Château de Tocqueville.

Beaumont on Italian affairs

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