Abstract

La Diplomatie Francaise et la Ligue des Neutres de 1780

The article discusses books and authors. The intense and widespread interest which republican France manifests in the First Empire is not due to any social or political unrest. There are still many reactionaries in France, both royalist and imperialist, but, since the Boulanger fiasco, they no longer agitate under those names. Moreover, for the moment at least, their agitation is insignificant, and the overwhelming mass of the nation seems heartily, thoroughly republican. The consummation so ardently desired by moderate conservative republicans wherein there shall be two great constitutional parties, conservative and radical, but both republican, seems to have been reached since the last elections, or if not quite attained, to be within sight.