The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-06-11

placed under censorship, ard other
measures of n retrograde nature adopt
ed. He died in September, 1923, and
having left no issue, was succeeded by
his brother Charles X, whose first ACT
was to abolish the censorship of the
press, which gave him a momentary
CLEAN of popularity; but his after
efforts to tie up the liberty of the peri.
odical press brought storm around
his ears that cost him his throne.
The seventh revolution occurred on
the I'd of August, 1880, when Charlie.
y. addicted the crown and retired 10
England. The ordinance against the
periodical press brought on the crisis
of the 9th of July, 1880, when the
first encounter took place between the
troops and the people. The fighting
next day became more general. The
National Guards joined the people,
the Hotel de Vile was taken and re-
taken, the Louvre and Tuileries at
tackled, and on the Both of July the
revolution was virtually ended, and
Louis Philippe was proclaimed King
Of France.
The eighth revolution was the mem
orable one of 1848, when "the Citizen
King" had to fly incontinently to
England without his shaving utensils.
His reign was a period of corruption
in high places. The heart of the ma
tion was alienated from their King,
and when triAing disturbance in
February, 1848, was aggravated into
popular riot, Louis Philippe felt
that he stood alone and unsupported
as a constitutional King. He shrank
from employing soldiers against his
people, and he fell in-consequence. He
fled in disguise from Paris to the coast
of Normandy, and. taking ship, found
refuge again in England. There was
republic once again. Lamartine
was the man of the moment, but his
popularity was rt.lived, and in the
general election of 1849 Louis Napo-
leon walked over the course.
The ninth revolution was inamgu-
rated in the bloody celebrated coup
d'etat of December, 1851, and Louis
Napoleon made himself Emperor and
strangled the infant Republic. His
career was splendid for almost twenty
years, until the fatal blunder of de.
claring war against Prussia. and then
the gigantic bubble of his Empire col.
lapsed. The news of the disaster at
Sedan ended the imperial regime. The
Empress ded to England, and a new
form of government, quasi civil q,sasl
military, took its placa.
The tenth revolution. With the
fall of the Empire all the worst sle.
ments of the huge city Of Paris were
liberated, aud though for very long
time a degree of exemplary order
reigned, the storm that finally burst
and wrought its fury on the fair and
devoted city could not have been
wholly unanticipsted. Under the
reign of the Provisional government
desperate efforts were made to restore
the lost prestige of the French militia
ry name, but the fates were unprOpi-
tious, and things went from bad to
worse. On the 10Th Of March, 1871,
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government left Paris, and then fel.
lowed tho reign Of the Commune.
The eleventh revolution was the
worst and bloodiest of all, for it war.
red upon all things, human and divine
upon life, property, art, science, lit.
eraturs, and all things dear to the
heart of society-and it substituted
nothing ennobling, nothing civilizing
for what it sought to remove. Paris
was pandemonium and a slaughter
house for several months. The forces
Of law and order finally triumphed.
The twelfth revolution, or the es
tablishment of the Republic rational
over the Commune crazy, followed
next. VI. Theirs has been the central fig
ure in the political armament of France
for the past two years. He has &C.
complished a good deal in that time
and in the trying feat of balancing
himself between all parties, and keep
ing his slippery position he managed
better than was ever anticipated. Now
it may be presumed, this for the pres
ent is the last of the revolutions, and
the advent of Marshal Mcmahon il
but = simple change in the admins
tration.
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