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Special Correspondence
May 29, 1879 issue

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The article reports socio-political news from France. The Parliamentary recess has been spent in getting up the steam power, which will enable the Legislature and the Government to advance or its opponents to pull it down. In the Councils-General the clerical party gathered all their forces to battle against the Jules Ferry Bill on Public Instruction. The Academy and the Grosvenor have been open since the beginning of the month. The absence of what the French call "grande peinture"--painting in which style plays a part--is as striking as ever at the former institution, where anecdotical art and little pictures addressed directly to the pocket of purchasers who demand a great deal of familiar point hold undisputed sway.

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FRANCE -- Politics & government -- 1870-1940; STEAM power plants; LEGISLATIVE bodies; TRANSPORTATION; ART; PICTURES; FRANCE
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