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Excerpt from Yesterdays in Paris: A Sketch From Real Life
Thiers was the President at the time our story opens, which was in the year 1873. They had taken as an example the great and successful Republic of America, so successful, in fact, that its very success may tend to corrupt it. Cthe leaders in the Repub~ lican movement in France had said to themselves The American republic is the sole one worth study ing, for it has lasted. The principal causes of its stability are in the checks to democratic fickleness and disorder.
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