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