ISBN: 1235725022

[EAN: 9781235725029], Neubuch, JAMES WHITE,FRANCE, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781235725029], Neubuch, JAMES WHITE,FRANCE, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST CONSULSHIP, A. d. 1799, TO THE EMPIRE, A. d. 1804. The four months of. winter, from January to May, 1800, were sufficient to prove that France had changed her constitution more completely in reality than in name. We may have observed in the earlier period of this history, that when an ambitious king wanted to extend his authority, his first care was to buy over the assistance of the clergy by sacrificing the pragmatic, by which the liberties of the Gallican Church were secured. The Pope was not worth the buying at the end of the eighteenth century; and Buonaparte perceived that the liberties of the country were no longer suppressible through the priesthood, but were confided to the championship of the press. Henceforth the first assault on the freedom of the nation is always made through a censorship on the newspapers. It was with this step that the First Consul inaugurated his reign. He placed all publications under the severest restrictions, and shut up the debating clubs and political assemblies throughout the Republic. The wealth of the country was lying unemployed for want of a medium for its diffusion; he established the Bank of France, guaranteed by the State. He increased the revenues by fresh burdens upon realised property, and aided local trade by relaxing some of its restrictions. He strengthened the power of his government by concentrating it in fewer hands; and replaced the municipal and county commissioners by the appointment of prefects responsible only 478 SOCIETY IN PARIS. . D. 1799. to himself. The central bureau in Paris contained all the information poured in from the provinces and from all the powers of the State. Of this central bureau he was the sole guide. A system of police, governed by certain rules and elevat. . .<

ISBN: 9781235725029

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