The evolution of France under the third republic . mber; he paid very dearly for condemned him to set his name at the bottomof the fatal treaty of peace which dismembered hiscountry, and his country was the thing which he lovedbest in the world. His enemies discovered in hisprivate life a sore spot not thoroughly healed, reopenedit, and pried into it with barbarous cruelty. Theyturned into ridicule his outbursts of feeling in thepresence of the conqueror, and the delicacy of hismodesty remained unappreciated.^ The end of his 1 M. Jules Ferry, appointed Prefect of the Seine by M. Thi
The evolution of France under the third republic . mber; he paid very dearly for condemned him to set his name at the bottomof the fatal treaty of peace which dismembered hiscountry, and his country was the thing which he lovedbest in the world. His enemies discovered in hisprivate life a sore spot not thoroughly healed, reopenedit, and pried into it with barbarous cruelty. Theyturned into ridicule his outbursts of feeling in thepresence of the conqueror, and the delicacy of hismodesty remained unappreciated.^ The end of his 1 M. Jules Ferry, appointed Prefect of the Seine by M. Thiers, on May26, 1871, was replaced, on June 5, 1871, by M. Leon Say, and appointed, inthe following year, Minister of France at Athens, whence he returned tofill his post of deputy on the fall of M. Thiers. M. Ernest Picard wasMinister at Brussels. M. Emmanuel Arago occupied, for years, the postof Ambassador at Berne. General Trochu retired, and from that time onlived in privacy. 2 Jules Favre, by E. de Pressense. Journal des Debats, August, JULES FAVRE, MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THENATIONAL DEFENCE. EARLY YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC. 13 career was a way of Calvary, and yet in his corre-spondence only one protest — a very mild one — is tobe found, wrung from his courage by his sufferings.^ He was, in short, the first victim of those currentsof popular calumny which, cleverly worked by influ-ential and malevolent men, struck to the ground morethan one good servant of France under the Third Re-public. More than one of these, also, has already found,through a revolution of public opinion, the rehabilita-tion which his memory merited. Gambetta, whom France had hailed with acclama-tion, was not, as yet, the prudent, wise, and thoughtfulman who presided over the Chamber of Deputies lateron. The great ideas which haunted his brain couldnot take the place of that experience, that knowledgeof difficulties which men acquire more or less rapidly,according to their degree of intellig
Size: 1320px × 1894px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidevolutionoff, bookyear1897
