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Chapter 47: INDEX
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A political biography traces the life and career of Georges Clemenceau, from provincial origins to his emergence in Parisian political and journalistic life, examining his role under the Second Empire, during the Commune, and as a leading Radical opponent of figures such as Boulanger; it discusses his work as philosopher and writer, involvement in the Panama and Dreyfus controversies, administrative style, strengths and weaknesses, and his return to power in 1917 to lead France through the final phase of the Great War, confronting questions of policy toward Germany and the aims of an uncompromising victory.

INDEX

Adulteration, John Bright on, 194

Albert, 16

Amadé, General, 212

Arago, Etienne, 9, 24, 32, 35

Armistice of 1871, 36

Aumale, Duc d’, and Boulanger, 95


Bakunin, 50

Barodet, 69, 86, 87

Barrès, M., 265

Basly, M., miners’ agent, 180

Bazaine, Marshal, 32, 36, 40

Bebel and Jaurès on the Fleet, 238

—— and the Social-Democrats, 244

Beesly, Prof., 50

Bellers, John, 234

Benedek, Marshal, 27

Berlin, brutality and greed of, 34

Beslay, 45, 49

Billot, General, 157

Bismarck—the forgery at Ems, 33

Blanc, Louis, 16, 39, 78, 85

Blanqui, 49, 56, 58, 59, 61

“Blessed word,” the, 19

Boer War, the, 216, 217

Boisdeffre, General, 157

Bolo Pasha, 273-280

Bonnet Rouge, arrest of proprietors, 267

Bordeaux, the Government at, 249

Boulanger, General, 10

Boulanger, General, and Army reforms, 96

——, as War Minister, 96

——, candidate for Paris, 101

——, deprived of his command, 99

——, downfall, its effect on the influence of Clemenceau, 105

——, elected for the Nord, 100

——, enters politics, a candidate for the Nord and the Dordogne, 99

——, fails to profit by his success, 103

——, flight and suicide, 104

——, his duel with M. Floquet, 98

——, his popularity after the affair Schnäbele, 97

——, his relations with the Duc d’Aumale, 95

——, his visits to Paris, 99

——, posted to the command of army corps at Clermont-Ferrand, 99

——, returned for Paris by a heavy majority, 103

——, rides through Paris on his black charger, 102

——, the pet of the Salons 97

Bourbon, House of, 16

Brandès, M., Clemenceau’s attack on, 251

Briand, M., 206

——, as an anarchist, 225

Bright, John, on adulteration, 194

Brisson, M., 78, 157, 162

British statesmanship, blindness of, 236

Broglie, Duc de, 10, 73, 74, 78, 101

Brousse, Paul, 100

Brown, John, and the American Civil War, 52

Buffet, 72

Butchery of peaceful citizens, 17


Caillaux, M., 206

——, and a German peace, 267-269

——, and Italian defeatists, 272

——, and the Income tax, 268

——, before the Army Committee of the Senate, 270

——, the financier, and the Income tax, 227

Calmette, M., the murder of, 269

Cambon, Jules, warns M. Pichon in 1913, 250

Camélinat, 45, 49

Canrobert, 17

Carnot, M. Sadi-, 93, 118

——, President, supports Lesseps 112, 113

Carrousel, the inscription on the, 138, 139

Casablanca, French settlers at, 212

Caserio, the anarchist, 137

Cassagnac, Paul de, 125

Charles X, 20

Chateaubriand, 17

Church and State, conflict between, 220-224

Cipriani, 58

Cinquet, M., 166

Citoyen Egalité, 16

Clemenceau, a Premier, asks England how many hundred thousand men she could land in North-Eastern France in case of a sudden war, 219

—— and Boulanger, 95

—— and Boulangism, 100

—— and Morocco, 202

—— and strikes, 198-201

—— and the coal miners, 135

—— and the doctrine of laissez-faire 135

—— and the Entente, 120

—— and the story of Boaz and Ruth, 137

—— and the strikers at Carmaux, 120

—— and the wine-growers’ agitation, 195-197

——’s anti-Czarist policy, 120

——’s appeal to Frenchmen, 245

—— as a conversationalist, 124

—— as a duellist, 125

—— as an orator, 123, 124

—— as doctor at Montmartre, 32

—— as Mayor of Montmartre, 35

—— as Minister of the Interior, 172

—— as municipal dictator, 35

—— as one of M. Floquet’s seconds at the duel with Boulanger, 99

—— as professor of French at Stanford, U.S.A., 29

—— as Senator for Var, 171

—— at Nantes as a student, 15

——’s attitude in the matter of M. Wilson’s trading in decorations, 93

——’s attitude towards the Catholics, 61

——, author’s conversation with, 207

—— becomes “suspect” and ceases to be Mayor of Montmartre, 42

——’s betrothal to Mary Plummer, 30

—— calls up the State engineers and re-lights Paris, 183

——, charges against him, 119, 120

——’s contempt for politicians as politicians, 94

——’s criticism on the German fête of Sedan, 138

——’s criticism on the catastrophe of the Charity Bazaar, 137

—— defends himself in the National Assembly, 119

—— denounces M. Ribot, 265

——’s disregard of monetary considerations, 125

——’s distrust of colonisation by conquest, 234

——, Dreyfus affair, 151-170

——’s duel with Commandant Poussages, 53

——, efforts of his enemies to connect him with the Panama scandal, 117

——, failure to attain Presidentship of Chamber, 126

——, fight for Draguignan, 122

——, freedom of speech, 94

——, French intervention in Egypt, 91

——, French peasantry, knowledge of, 133

——, his reception by the miners at Lens, 177

—— in America, 29

—— in prison of Mazas, 25

——’s individualism antipathetic to Socialist view of collective social progress, 121

——’s influence in council chamber of the Allies, 299

—— introduces measure to establish Municipal Council of Paris, 54

——’s knowledge of Parisian life, 54

——, letters to the Temps, 29

——, literary works, 141

——, love of animals, 142

——, love of Paris, 139, 140

—— on French intervention in Egypt, 91

—— on the “Right to Strike,” 174

——, opponent of Gambetta, 90

—— opposed to colonial adventure, 88

—— opposed to colonisation by conquest, 62

—— opposed to execution of Generals Lecomte and Thomas, 42

——’s opposition to M. Ferry and his support of M. Sadi-Carnot, 93

——’s powerful personality, 131

——’s power of work, 125

——’s reply to Jaurès, 189

—— retires from parliamentary life after defeat at Draguignan, 123

——’s sense of humour, 55

——’s speech at Hyères, 206

——’s speech at Lyons on the miners’ strike, 181

——’s speech in favour of amnesty of Communists, 56

——’s speech in the National Assembly, 43

——’s statement of Socialism, 131

—— the Tiger, 81

——, the universal sceptic, 172

——, tour of propaganda, 43

—— turns journalist, 128

—— turns lecturer, 232

——’s view of Boulangist agitation, 101

——’s warning after the battle of the Marne, 250

——, 1870-71, the war of, 237

Cluseret, 48, 51

Commune, administration of the, 45

——, establishment of the, 41

“Communist Manifesto,” the, 50

Comte, Auguste, 25, 26

Constans, M., said to be the cause of the Boulanger fiasco, 103

“Co-operative Commonwealth,” 51

Cottu, M., indictment of, 116

Courbet, 45

Courrières-Lens colliery disaster, the, 173


Damiens, the assassin, 136

d’Aumale, Duc, 23

Daudet, M. Léon, 265

Delcassé, M., 173

—— and Clemenceau, antagonism between, 229-231

—— and the Kaiser, 205

——, King Edward’s courtesy to, 218

Declaration, Clemenceau’s, 284-290

Delescluze, 45, 51, 58

Déroulède, M., saves a situation, 217

Dilke, Sir Charles, 89, 204

Dombrowski, 51

Doumergue, M., 206

Dreyfus, 10

Dufaure, 78, 84


Edward VII, King, 213

Eiffel, M., indictment of, 116

Electrical engineers’ strike in Paris, 182

Encyclopædia Britannica: tribute to M. Clemenceau, 214

Engels, 50

England’s opposition to construction of Suez Canal, 106

Esterhazy, Major, 157-162


Fallières, M., 213

—— and M. Clemenceau in London, 218

Favre, Jules, 36

Ferry, Jules, 78, 84, 87, 88, 89, 92, 213

—— and colonial expansion, 119

Fez, French delegation at, 204

Flahault, 17

Floquet, 78, 115

——, duel with Gen. Boulanger, 98

Flourens, M., his pen-picture of King Edward, 214-216

Foch, Marshal, 295

Fontane, M., indictment of, 116

Fontenay le Comte, 14

Foreign affairs in 1908, 213

France and England, a better feeling between, 21

—— and Great Britain, relations between, 213

——, the wealth of, 234, 235

Francis Joseph, 27

Franco-German agreement of 1909, 239

—— convention of 1911, 239-241

Fraser’s Magazine, extract from, 45

French Revolution, 16

Freycinet, M., 84, 96


Gallifet, 51

Gambetta, 10, 43, 44, 60, 64-79, 82, 83, 87, 88, 89, 90, 210

Gauthier, M., urges the Government to complete Panama Canal, 114

Germany and Morocco, 202

——, preparations of, 243

Germinat, Admiral, and the Navy, 226

Gonse, General, 157, 163, 166

Grévy, Albert, 78, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 92, 93

Gribelin, M., 166

Guesde, Jules, 261

Guesdists, the, 121


Haldane, Lord, 204

——, “sublime confidence” in Germany, 242

“Harum, David,” his motto, 62

Haussmann, Baron, 22

Henry, Colonel, 158, 165

——, the anarchist, 136, 137

Henty, George, 167

Herz, M. Cornelius, and his part in the Panama scandal, 109, 116, 117, 118

Hugo, Victor, 23

Humbert, M., 272

Hyndman, Hugh, 45


Income tax, a graduated, 227

Infiltration, German, and France, 258-260

Interpenetration, German, 257

Ismail Pasha, Khedive, 106

Italian campaign, the, 21

Italian Carbonari, 17


Jacques, a liquor dealer, chosen to fight Paris against the General, 102

Jaurès and peace, 238

——, 124, 125, 139, 157, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 183-192, 212

—— in public affairs, 121

Jouaust, Colonel, 165, 166

Jourde, 45, 49

Judet, M., one of Clemenceau’s detractors, 118

Junck, M., 166

Junker party and the Crown Prince, 205

Justice, La 84


Kaiser, the, and preparations for the war, 218

——, and the King of Spain, 203

——, and the Sultan of Morocco, 203

King Edward and Clemenceau, 214-217


Labori, M., 160

Labour, Minstry of, and M. Viviani, 229

Lac, Father du, 158

Langlois, Colonel, 53

Lauth, Major 165, 166

Le Blond, Maurice, 29

Lecomte, General, 41, 42, 53

Lesseps, M. Ferdinand, 106-107

——, Count Ferdinand de, indictment of, 116

——, Count de, 115

——, Count, two estimates of his character, 111, 112

——, M. C. de, indictment of, 116

Lichnowsky’s, Prince, revelations, 244

Liebknecht, Wilhelm, 168, 169

Longuet, 45, 262

Lottery Bill, the Panama, 109

Loubet, President, 118

Louis XVI, 16

—— XVIII, 20

—— Philippe, 16, 20


MacMahon, Marshal, 10, 36, 69, 72-78, 82, 85

Madeira wine and a story about Cette, 191

Malvy, M., and pro-Germans, 264

Mannesmann, Brothers, 212

Marx, 50, 131

Marxists, the, 121

Méline, M., 157

Mercier, General, 157, 166

Michel, E. B., 45

Mill, John Stuart, a dedication to, 25

Montagnards, insurrection of the, 57

Morny, 17

Morocco affair, the, 173

——, French policy in, 211

Mouilleron-en-Pareds, 14


Napoleon III, 20, 22, 23, 33

——, chief cause of downfall of, 27

——, loss of prestige, 32

——, Louis, 16, 17, 19, 21, 27, 28

——, the Court of, 21

Naquet, 87

Narbonne and Montpellier, disaffection among the wine-growers, 194

National workshops, 16

Nicholas, Emperor, 21

1918, June, the Socialists and Clemenceau, 291-293

Noir, Victor, murder of, 32

Norton, M., 118

“Novel with a purpose,” the, 146


Orleans, House of, 16

Orsini bomb, the, 21


Painlevé, M., 282

Panama Canal, a congress of nations called by Lesseps, 107

—— and financial corruption, 110

—— and opponents of the Republic, 111

——, collapse of the company, 113

——, horrors on the Isthmus, 109

——, indictment of directors, 116

—— scandal, accusation of deputies, senators, and academicians, 115

—— scandal, Presidents Carnot and Loubet’s attitude, 111

—— scandal, the, 10

Paris and the Provinces, 19

Paty du Clam, Colonel, 158

Peace as desired by Socialist leaders, 238

Perovskaia, Sophie, 58

Persigny, 17

Phylloxera ravages in the Bordeaux vineyards, 194

Pichon, M., 206, 213

Picquart, Colonel, 157, 162, 164, 166, 206

Plébiscite, the, 17, 19, 20, 33

Poincaré and Clemenceau, relations between, 255

Population, concentration of, John Bellers on, 234

——, Petty on the same, ibid.

Pyat, 43, 44, 51


Radolin, Prince, 212

Railways, the nationalisation of, 226

Raspail, 58

Ravachol, the anarchist, 136

Reinach, M. Jacques, and his part in the Panama Scandal, 109

——, the tragedy of his death, 116, 117, 118

Rémusat, de, 69

Republic of 1848, 16

Retreat, the great, of August 1914, 248

Revolution, the French, Clemenceau on, 228

Ribot, M., denounced by Clemenceau, 265

Rochefort, 23

Roget, M., 166

Rollin, Ledru, 16

Rosen, Dr., 212

Rossel, 51

Rouher, 23

Rousseau, M., reports unfavourably on Panama Canal, 108

Rouvier, M., 115, 172

——, defends the President in the Wilson affair, 93

——, refuses to accept Boulanger as War Minister, 98

Russia, campaign against, 21


Sarrien, M., 172, 193, 206

Scheurer-Kestner, 157-163

Schnäbele affair, the, Boulanger’s part in it, 96, 97

Second Empire, the, 15

Shaw, Bernard, 192

Simon, Jules, 73, 74

Social-Democracy, German, and the war, 244

Socialist demonstration against Clemenceau at unveiling of statue to M. Floquet, 227

—— Party, the, anti-patriotic, 262-3

Sonnino, Baron, and Caillaux, 272

Spüller, 90

Suez Canal, the, 106


Thiers, 9, 37, 39, 44, 50, 51, 54, 68, 69

Thomas, Albert, 261

——, General, 41, 42, 53

Trochu, General, 36

Tunis, the question of, 88


Utrinque paratus,” 9


Vaillant, 45, 125

—— and Hervé, and the war, 261

—— and peace, 238

——, the anarchist, 136, 137

——, Edouard, the Blanquist, 121

Vendée, La, 13, 14, 15

Venice, the annexation of, 27

Verdun, Clemenceau on the victories at, 251

Vermorel, 43

Victoria, Queen, 34

Ville Lumière, La, 24

Viviani, M., 206, 229


Waddington, 83, 84

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 8

Wilson, trading in decorations, 92

Wine, adulteration of, 194

Working Men’s Association, the International, 50

Wyse, Buonaparte, sells concession for Panama canal scheme to Lesseps, 108


Zola, 157-160

——, the trial of, 162, 164

Zurlinden, General, 157