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DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE.



FOURTH EDITION.

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DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE.

JANUARY, 1849.

B Y   M O N S I E U R   G U I Z O T.


FOURTH EDITION.



LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
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1849

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LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

I venture to believe that nothing will be found in the following pageswhich bears the impress of my personal situation. While events of suchmagnitude are passing before his eyes, a man who did not forget himselfwould deserve to be for ever forgotten. I have thought of nothing butthe situation of my country. The more I reflect upon that, the more I amconvinced that the evil which lies at the root of all her evils, whichundermines and destroys her governments and her liberties, her dignityand her happiness, is the evil which I attack;—the idolatry ofDemocracy.

Whether the accession of M. Louis Napoléon Bonaparte to the Presidencyof the Republic will be found an efficacious remedy for this disease,the future will show. What I have said here after the election of M.Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, I should have equally said, without theslightest alteration, if General Cavaignac had been elected. It is notto individuals, but to society itself, that great social truths areaddressed.{vii}{vi}

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