Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... IX The Nineties--Continued The Anarchist Outrages--Carnot assassinated--Another Financial Collapse --The Basilica of the Sacred Heart--A Centenary of the Republic-- --Ernest Renan and John Lemoinne--Grevin the Caricaturist--Other Deaths in '92--Plays at the Comedie--A Latin Quarter Riot--The Rapprochement with Russia--MacMahon, Ferry, Taine, Delpit and Uchard--' My Uncle Barbassou '--Nadand, Malon and Charcot-- Mortality among French Dukes--French Nobles on the Future of their Class--More Comedie Plays---' Madame Sans Gene'--Various Operas and Plays--Nervous Tension in Paris--The Panama Affair-- A new Municipal Loan--Burdeau, Mace, Cain, and Leconte de Lisle --Duruy and General Mellinet--Eugene Pelletan--Casimir-Perier's Resignation--The Dreyfus Affair begins--Felix Faure Elected-- Napoleon Ill's "Double "--Edmond Magnier's Collapse--Strange Fortunes in Journalism--Coquelin and the Comedie--Plays in '95-- Death of Dumas fds--Droz and 'Monsieur, Madame et Bebe'-- Doucet and the Academy's Secretariate--Bartheleiny Saint-Hilaire, Murat, Mettcmich, Larrey and Pasteur. The year 1892 was one of very considerable agitation and turmoil in Paris. The Boulangist danger was past, the General himself had committed suicide, * but the Panama scandal still engaged much attention, and serious Anarchist outrages now began, f In February there was a dynamite explosion at the Princess de Sagan's house, which was mistaken, it was said, for the Spanish embassy. In March came, first, an attempt to blow up a flat occupied by M. Benoit, an Assize Court judge, followed by an explosion at the Lobau barracks and a little later by an attempt to destroy the residence of M. Bulot, the Public Prosecutor, half a dozen persons being injured on this last occasion when the...
