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161.: FRENCH NEWS [58] EXAMINER, 29 APR., 1832, P. 280 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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FRENCH NEWS [58]

EXAMINER, 29 APR., 1832, P. 280

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, April 29, 1832,” is listed as “Paragraphs on France” and enclosed in square brackets in the Somerville College set of the Examiner.

the french chambers were prorogued on the 21st of April, after a session of nine months, in which but little that is of any real use has been even talked about; and of that little, nothing but the most paltry and insignificant fraction has been accomplished. The first session of the first Parliament elected under the Citizen King and the charte-vérité,¹ has demonstrated nothing but the vices of the institutions of France, and the backwardness of her national mind.

In our next paper, we purpose giving a summary of the res gestae of the session; with the remarks, which such a survey naturally suggests, on the two comprehensive questions—what France now is, and what she has next to do and to become?

The illness of MM. Périer and d’Argout has set much vain speculation afloat concerning the chances of a change of ministry.

[1 ]I.e., the Charter of 1830, of which Louis Philippe said on 31 July, 1830, “La Charte sera désormais une vérité” (“Proclamation du duc d’Orléans,” Moniteur, 1830, p. 833).