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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Church. Mostof the higher officers in the army came from aristocratic fami-lies, as in other European countries, and they were naturally 1 The parliament of France differs from the Congress of the United Statesor the Parliament of Great Britain in the way it works. Instead of having twogreat parties there are about ten groups of members, each representing certainideas. A few monarchists still sit on the seats at the extreme right of thespeakers desk, or tribune. Next to them sit very conservative republicans.The largest group is that of the radicals, or reformers, while at the left arequite a number of socialists, representing the working classes. The cabinetmust have the support of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, as thehouse of representatives is called, which is elected every four years by uni-versal male suffrage. The Senate is elected for nine years by a more compli-cated system, one hundred being elected every third year, and tends to be moreconservative than the Chamber.
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638 German Empire and Third French Republic 639 ready to side against the republic if the Royalist leaders should Boulangersgive them a chance. This was made clear in two incidents, the overturn die Boulanger affair and the Dreyfus case. About 1890 rePublicGeneral Boulanger, a popular officer, began courting the favorof the army and the workingmen in much the same way thatNapoleon III had done when he was planning to make himselfmaster of France. The monarchists supported him in the hopeof overthrowing the republic. He was elected by a huge ma-jority to the Chamber of Deputies, and for a time it seemed asthough he might make himself a dictator. He was accused ofconspiring against the State, however, and fled from France,leaving the monarchists chagrined and the republic secure. Some four years later a Jewish officer from Alsace, Captain The Drey flic sffflir Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted by court-martial of being a spyfor the German army. His friends claimed that he had nothad a fair

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