Show WHAT o since the fall of the empire 16 years have all but bot elapsed and we are bomio coming oear near the fatal term to french since atie revolution says the london telegraph raph the earlier phases were rapid counted more by months than years yeara X napoleon Nap oleen however held power with an interval for 15 years the restoration lasted for 15 more louis phillippe reigned for 18 and napoleon Mapo leou III for toe the same s e period Thelle abe republic public is now older adder than the re restoration st oration and it is within two years of the Orle aDist term there is nothing mystical roya lical in this calculation the explanation lies in the simple fact that while frenchmen freshly remember the horrors of a revolution they adhere more or less passively to the succeeding system but t they hey have short mea and are a j ight hearted race beyond this thia there grow up to young youna boys boya who were in iii their cradles or at school when paris ran blood or glowed with incendiary fires they do donot not realize what it is to live through a period of social storm and they read with a relish of envy the records ot of the epoch when great events occurred there is the same feeling as to war france will never be in danger until the men that suffered from the invasion iu of 1870 are relegated to the chimney corners co then will arise ariada a generatiOn youn young befi believing evins in french prowess and not faring german force when weak ministries give way again and again to the extreme left france is brought within measurable distance di of a fourth revolution a new commune om another great war |