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Baraguay d'Hilliers and Randon .. .
Lent in the Provinces . .
Chenonceaux . . .
Montalembert's speech , . in
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 . . . . . . .

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Orleanist-Fusionists form the bulk of the Royalists
Legitimists unfit for public life .
Republican party not to be despised . .
Parliamentarians . . . .
Desire only free institutions. .

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Trovinces. .

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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 . .

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English Alliance . . . .
Russian influence . . . . . . . .
Revolutions followed by despotism
Lessons taught by history . . . . . .

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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 . . .
French army . . .
National characteristics. .
Change in French only apparent.
Martin's History of France .
He is a centraliser and an absolutist
Secret police. . . . . . .

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Journal in 1858.
Talleyrand as a writer
English ignorance of French affairs . ..
Change of feeling respecting Louis Napoleon .
• Loi de sureté publique' ..
Manner in which it has been carried out.
Deportation a slow death . .
Influence of 'hommes de lettres' ..
French army
Russian army · ·
French navy . . .
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. .. .

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Intellectual and moral inferiority of the age .
Education of French women . . .
Messe d'une heure' .

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Influence of Madame Récamier . .
Duchesse de Dino . . . . .

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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. i
Grief it occasioned in England . . .

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