New Reform Bill .

Communication from Schwartzenberg

Democracy or aristocracy

Reform Bill not wanted.

Twenty-five thousand men at Cherbourg.

Easier to understand Lord Derby than Lord John

Preparations at Cherbourg a delusion

Conversation with King Leopold

No symptoms of aristocratic re-action in England

England's democratic tendencies

Idleness of young aristocrats

Death of Protection

Revolutions leading to masquerades

Empire can be firmly established only by a successful war

Agents undermining the Empire

Violence and corruption of the Government

Growing unpopularity of Louis Napoleon

Consequences of his death

He probably will try the resource of war

Conquest would establish his power

War must produce humiliation or slavery to France

Corruption is destroying the army and navy

Emperor cannot tolerate opposition

Will try a plébiscite

Letters in 1853.

Blackstone a mere lawyer

Feudal institutions in France and England

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Gentleman and Gentilhomme

Life of seclusion

Interference of police with letters

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Great writers of the eighteenth century

Political torpor unfavourable to intellectual product

English not fond of generalities

Curious archives at Tours

Frightful picture they present

Sufficient to account for the Revolution of 1789

La Marck's memoir of Mirabeau

Court would not trust Mirabeau

Tocqueville independent of society.

Studious and regular life

Influence of writers as compared with active politicians

Criticism of the Journals

Journal in 1854.

The speakers generally recognised.

Aware that they were being reported

The Legitimists

Necessity of Crimean War

English view of the Fusion

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They rejoiced in the Orleans confiscation

Baraguay d'Hilliers and Randon

Lent in the Provinces

Chenonceaux

Montalembert's speech

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.

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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.

Real friends of England are the friends of her institutions

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Orleanist-Fusionists form the bulk of the Royalists

Legitimists unfit for public life

Republican party not to be despised

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