Contemporary France, Volumen1A. Constable & Company, Limited, 1903 |
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Términos y frases comunes
4th of September Affairs army Belfort Berlin Beust Bonapartist Bordeaux Committee Commune Comte de Chambord Comte de Paris confidence constitution Council Count von Arnim debate declared Defence Delescluze demanded deputies Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier Duc d'Aumale Duc de Broglie Dufaure Dupanloup duty elected Emperor Empire Ernoul Europe evacuation fact favour February France fresh Gambetta Germany Gontaut-Biron Grévy hand honour indemnity Jules Favre Jules Grévy Jules Simon King Lastly Legitimist liberation loan majority Manteuffel March Marshal MacMahon ment military milliards millions Minister Ministry Monarchists Monarchy Napoleon Napoleon III National Assembly necessary negotiations occupation opinion organization Orleanist Orleans parliamentary party payment peace perhaps political Pouyer-Quertier President Prince Bismarck proposed Prussia question replied Republic Republican resignation restoration Saint-Vallier sentiments side sitting situation Souvenirs taken territory Thiers thought tion treaty tribune troops Versailles victory vote whole wish words
Pasajes populares
Página 71 - The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
Página 261 - Every act of the President of the Republic must be countersigned by a minister.
Página 71 - Sovereignty cannot be represented for the same reason that it cannot be alienated; it consists essentially in the general will, and the will cannot be represented ; it is the same or it is different ; there is no medium.
Página 220 - ... dare to execute the prisoners, or else that the troops would arrive in time to save them. But the threat was carried out ; Chaudey was murdered on May 21st, the Archbishop and his fellow-prisoners on the next day. On May 28th Marshal MacMahon issued the following proclamation : INHABITANTS OF PARIS, The Army of France has come to save you ; Paris is delivered. At four o'clock our soldiers captured the last positions held by the insurgents. Today the struggle is over ; order, work, and security...
Página 131 - Handed over in contempt of all justice and by a hateful abuse of force to the domination of the foreigner, we declare, once again, null and of no effect a compact which disposes of us without our consent.
Página 9 - I shall always be consistent in my conduct. If I have fought for Italian independence, if I have raised my voice for Polish nationality, I cannot, in Germany, entertain other sentiments nor obey other principles.
Página 211 - The gunners were cannonading one another across the town and above the town. Shells fell in every direction. All the central quarters were a battlefield. It was a horrible chaos ; bodies and souls in collision over a crumbling world.
Página 326 - The Jewish communities of the territories situated to the east of the new frontier shall cease to depend on the Central Jewish Consistory residing at Paris.
Página 6 - The first sovereign who, in the midst of the first great struggle, shall embrace in good faith the cause of the peoples, will find himself at the head of all Europe, and will be able to accomplish whatever he wishes.
Página 164 - In a word, apply yourselves to extending and perfecting the system of federative Governments, the only one that unites the advantages of large and small States, and hence the only one that can suit you.