The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . rmy were reorganized, the latterafter the Prussian France was freedfrom foreign had been agreed thatthe war indemnity shouldbe paid in installmentsthrough three years, andGerman garrisons were toremain in France as a se-curity for payment. Butin eighteen months thelast franc was paid, to theastonishment of friend andfoe alike. A large shareof the credit for this rapidpayment belongs to theFrench clergy, who untir-ingly exhorted the peopleto free their beloved coun-try f
The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . rmy were reorganized, the latterafter the Prussian France was freedfrom foreign had been agreed thatthe war indemnity shouldbe paid in installmentsthrough three years, andGerman garrisons were toremain in France as a se-curity for payment. Butin eighteen months thelast franc was paid, to theastonishment of friend andfoe alike. A large shareof the credit for this rapidpayment belongs to theFrench clergy, who untir-ingly exhorted the peopleto free their beloved coun-try from the invader. Thiers himself was anold Orleanist; but he saw that to estabHsh the monarchywas to risk civil war. Accordingly he allied himself with themoderate Repubhcans in the Assembly. This soon led to fric-tion between the president and the RoyaHst majority, and, inMay, 1873, a coalition of Royalists forced him to resign. In his place the Royalists elected Marshal MacMahon, anardent Orleanist. For some months the restoration of themonarchy seemed almost certain. Legitimists and Orleanists. Thiers. 736 FRANCE: THE THIRD REPUBLIC [§763 had at last united in support of the Count of Chambord, whoagreed to adopt the Count of Paris as his heir. The monarchistshad the machinery of government in their hands and were justready to proclaim the monarchy when the two factions splitagain. The rupture was due to the stubborn attitude of thefuture king on some points of detail, notably whether the flagof France should be the tricolor, the emblem of the Revolutionof 1830, or the white lilies of the Bourbons. The Count ofChambord indignantly rejected the symbol of the Revolutionand declared he would not give up the flag of his this formality the negotiations broke down. 763. Then, in 1875, the Assembly adopted a republicanconstitution. Slightly modified by later amendments, it is theconstitution of the present French Repubhc. It has never beensubmitted to the people. The
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