Identifier: evolutionoffranc00coub (find matches)
Title: The evolution of France under the third republic
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coubertin, Pierre de, 1863-1937 Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928. tr
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Publisher: New York (etc.) T. Y. Crowell and company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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brogate Arti-cle 20 of the military law of July 27, 1872, which exempted students intheological seminaries and their teachers, came before the Chamber, — M.Paul Bert brought in the bill, — MM. Jules Ferry and Constans defendedwith great energy, but in vain, the prerogatives of the clergy. 2 In the Senate, in March, 1882, Jules Simon represented his amend-ment passed the preceding year, but not accepted by the Chamber, anddirected towards inscribing in the school law the words: Duties towardsGod and towards country (which were inscribed, moreover, in the regu-lations by the Supreme Council). It is repugnant to me, a former pro-fessor, said he, to see a law for education, and especially for primaryeducation, from which the name of God has been expunged; it shocks me,it grieves me. During the active period of my life we all had that beliefin God. We regarded it as our first duty, as legislators, to write God intoour laws, as it was our first duty as republicans to avenge the Republic
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JULES FERRY, DEPUTY, PRIME MINISTER,THE SENATE. AND PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE CnURCII. 285 there. During the first part of the present period someof them proposed, in an indefinite manner, the suppres-sion of the French Embassy to the Vatican and theseparation of Church and State; these persons werethe first to rejoice when the majority decided againstthem, so thoroughly did they feel themselves to be outof harmony with the universal opinion. This universalopinion is resolute and persevering; little by little iteffaces from programmes those reforms whose emptinessand sterility it perceives. It understands that if theseparation were to be effected, there would be discordin the bosom of every family, and greater disunionamwig the French than at any other epoch. How longwould such a crisis last ? No one can tell. As it isnot the nature of crises to last, the country would wishto put an end to it. Very speedily men would againbegin to talk of religious pacification, of necessary a

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