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

Perhaps the most striking illustration that can be given of the true nature of the contest now waging between the Third Republic and France, is the share taken in it by the fami...

Val Richer--The home of Guizot--The French Protestants and the Third Republic--Free education in France the work of Guizot--Education in France checked by the Revolution--Mediæv...

It says but little for what Texans call the 'sabe' of the municipal authorities of Valenciennes that this, which ought to be one of the most picturesque and attractive, is reall...

No city in France has more to lose and less to gain from the triumph of the Third Republic over historic France than this ancient, rich, and royal city of Reims.

It would be hard to find in France, or out of France, on a pleasant summer's day, a more charming drive than the highway which leads from Chauny, with its great modern industrie...

Thanks to Louis XIV., French Flanders became politically French more than two centuries ago. But it still remains essentially Flemish. The land has a life and a language of its...

The short railway journey from Amiens on the Somme to La Fère on the Oise takes you through a country which, on a fine summer's morning, reminds one of the old Kentuckian descri...

The lofty hill on which the Sires de Coucy planted their chief fortress rises above the fields and forests of the Soissonnais as the Mont St.-Michel rises above the waves and th...

Where party names are taken from persons, there we may be sure that the people are either losing, or have never had, the political instincts which alone can make popular governm...

The lively little city of Chauny, standing in the heart of the rich and lovely valley of the Oise, the 'golden vale' of this part of France, has a history of its own of which I...

The men who, in 1790, brought about the formal division of France into departments, no doubt thereby facilitated the ephemeral transformation, in September 1792, of the ancient...

By turns English, French, and Burgundian, Upper Picardy, of which Amiens was the capital, became definitely French under the astute policy of Louis XI. The Calaisis and the Boul...

Boulogne now, as in the days of Arthur Young, is surrounded with bright and pleasant villas and country houses, though many of the châteaux which Young was so much surprised to...

My host at St.-Quentin being a councillor-general, his term of office expires with the elections fixed to take place on July 28. There is no reason in the nature of things why c...

It is a local tradition at Aire-sur-la-Lys that, about half a century ago, the good people of this ancient and picturesque town (which, like St.-Omer, remained a part of the Spa...

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Valenciennes--The shabbiest historic town in North-eastern France--Perfect cultivation of French Flanders--Cock-fighting and flowers--Prosperity of the cabarets--One to every fo...

Reims--The capital of the French kings--Clotilde and Clovis, Jeanne d'Arc and Urban II.--Vineyards and factories--The wines of Champagne known and unknown--The red wine of Bouzy...

Lille--The _Flamand flamingant_--Pertinacity of the Flemish tongue--A historic city without monuments--Old customs and traditions--The Musée Wicar--The unique wax bust--A 'pious...

Laon--The ruins of Coucy-le-Château--A rural inn in France--The sugar crisis--The birthplace of César de Vendóme--The bell which tolls and is heard by the dying alone--The hangi...

Boulogne--Arthur Young and the Boulonnais--Boulogne and Quebec--The English and French types of civilisation--A French ecclesiastic on the religious question--The oppressive sch...

St.-Gobain--Paris and the Ile-de-France--Reclamation of the commons--Mischievous haste in the Revolutionary transfer of lands--The evolution of property and order in France and...

Laon--A feudal fortress home--Chauny and the green monkeys of Rabelais--The festival of the jongleurs and the learned dogs--A damsel of Chauny on English good sense and Queen Vi...

Amiens--Party names taken from persons--The effect of Republican misrule at Amiens--Why the Monarchists acted with the Boulangists--The Picards incline towards the Empire--How t...

Aire-sur-la-Lys--Local and general elections in France--A public meeting in rural Artois--A councillor-general and his constituents--Artois in the 18th and 19th centuries--Well-...

Amiens--Picardy Old and New--Arthur Young and Charles James Fox in Amiens--'The look of a capital'--The floating gardens of Amiens--A stronghold of Boulangism--Protest of Amiens...

Laon, Chauny, and St.-Gobain--The French Revolution and Spanish soda--The most extensive chemical works in France--A miniature Rotterdam--A Cité Ouvrière--The religious war in C...

Aire-sur-la-Lys--Local objections to a national railway--A visit to a councillor-general--Pentecost in Artois--The Artesians in 1789--Wealth and power of the clergy--Recognition...

Calais--Natural and artificial France--The provinces and the departments--The practical joke of the First Consulate--The Counts of Charlemagne and the Prefects of Napoleon--Pres...