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France and the Republic / A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889

Chapter 48: EPOCHS OF ANCIENT HISTORY.
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The author records travels through the French provinces during the centennial exposition year and combines on-the-ground reportage with political analysis, tracing how parliamentary usurpation, anticlerical policy, and centralized Parisian power shape republican institutions. He contrasts the weak executive with stronger hereditary or presidential models, examines electioneering, patronage of public employment, and fiscal strains, and recounts episodes that reveal provincial diversity and urban-provincial tensions. The narrative assesses risks to stability, including popular movements and corrupting influences, and contemplates possible outcomes ranging from social reform to a restored constitutional monarchy.

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