
French life in town and country
by Hannah Lynch
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Excerpt from French Life in Town and CountryIt is true that the townsman all over the land is largely governed by a need for excitement, and having, as a rule, no personal initiative to enable him to minister to it, he contents himself with looking toward the capital with envy, and devours the newspapers from Paris in eager ex pectation of the something he is in daily hope Of happening. But whatever does happen in Paris rarely makes itself felt in the intellectually sleepy, industrious provinces thanks to which wide-spread Spirit of commercial and bucolic denseness to the in?ammatory in?uences...
Chapters (291)
- FRENCH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- CHAPTER I FRENCH RURAL AND PROVINCIAL LIFE
- CHAPTER II PARIS AND PARISIANISM
- CHAPTER III SOCIAL DIVERSIONS AND DISTINCTIONS
- CHAPTER IV THE ARMY AND THE NATION
- CHAPTER V SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
- CHAPTER VI NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER VII HOME-LIFE IN FRANCE
- CHAPTER VIII PEASANT AND ARTISAN
- CHAPTER IX THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGES
- CHAPTER X THE PARISIAN LECTURE AND SALON
- CHAPTER XI THE “LITTLE PEOPLE” OF PARIS
- CHAPTER XII ORGANISED PHILANTHROPY AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
- INDEX
- Our European Neighbours
- I.—FRENCH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- II.—GERMAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- III.—RUSSIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- IV.—DUTCH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- V.—SWISS LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
- ITALIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY
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