The Third Republic of France : the first phase, 1871-1894

vii which has produced so many stout-hearted leaders to support a heroic soldiery, gave itself a series of governments which prepared its collapse in sixty days? The answer to the question is many-sided, and, in some aspects, of great age. A body may die of one stroke, but usually it expires through a number of small ills. It is these I propose to examine. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii The Political Pattern I From Sedan to the Fall of Thiers....Pages 1-44 The Political Pattern II: the Government of Moral Order....Pages 45-74 Population....Pages 75-84 Agriculture....Pages 85-113 The Pattern of Industry....Pages 114-147 The Church and Education....Pages 148-159 The Sixteenth of May....Pages 160-187 The Republic of the Republicans....Pages 188-202 The Problem of the Orders....Pages 203-211 From Ferry to Gambetta....Pages 212-227 The Pattern of French Government....Pages 228-232 Freycinet and Egypt....Pages 233-239 Ferry....Pages 240-245 Ferry and the Colonies....Pages 246-259 The 1885 Election....Pages 260-264 The Rise of Boulanger....Pages 265-274 Boulangism....Pages 275-291 The Ralliement....Pages 292-298 Panama....Pages 299-326 Labour and Socialism....Pages 327-343 The Russian Alliance....Pages 344-355 The Pursuit of Self-sufficiency....Pages 356-367 The End of an Epoch....Pages 368-376 Back Matter....Pages 377-433