Springville Herald | 1952-04-24 | Page 3 | France Celebrates Centenary of Uncle Tom's Cabin

is a little book which in a few hundred hun-dred pages contains all the elements ele-ments of a revolution." In addition addi-tion to its powerful influence on America, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had its echoes in France, where many abolitionists worked to end the Negro slave trade. This month's ceremonies in France are being organized or-ganized by a committee headed by M. Gaston Monnerville,' President of the French Council of the Republic. France Celebrates Centenary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin France and the French Union are this month celebrating the centenary of the publication on March 20, 1852 of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the book by Harriet Bee-cher Bee-cher Stowe that shook the foundations founda-tions of slavery in America. Soon after the book reached Europe a French literary critic wrote: "Here