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169.: FRENCH NEWS [62] EXAMINER, 3 JUNE, 1832, P. 361 - 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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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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169.

FRENCH NEWS [62]

EXAMINER, 3 JUNE, 1832, P. 361

For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 116. The item, headed “London, June 3, 1832,” is listed in the Somerville College set of the Examiner as “Article on France” and enclosed in square brackets.

the most important circumstance which has occurred in France during the last week was a meeting of the leading deputies of the Opposition, at the house of M. Laffitte, for the purpose of drawing up a collective address to the nation.1

When this manifesto shall be agreed upon, and shall make its appearance, it will doubtless excite much interest here; among those at least who do not think, with the Times of Friday last, that the internal affairs of France are no concern of the British public, because they are not connected with “English interests.”2 The Times wrongs the British public, and wrongs even itself. We should feel shame for our country if such things were true. We know not why it should be less shameful in a nation than in an individual, to care about nothing but its own interest; nor why we should impute to Englishmen the egregious folly of deeming the interests of good government and civilization throughout the world no interests of theirs. This is but a poor sample of English feeling from the “leading journal,” on the very day which brings us the news of a patriotic banquet at Paris, whereat M. Armand Carrel, the Editor of the only influential Paris newspaper in which there lingered some remains of anti-English feeling, was selected, perhaps for that very reason, to give, as a toast, “The People of England,” with expression of the warmest sympathy and congratulation upon our late glorious though pacific Three Days.3

A subscription is getting up among the friends and dependants of the Ministry for a monument to M. Casimir Périer. We predict that it will bear a closer resemblance to the subscription for Chambord, so felicitously shown up by the admirable Paul Louis Courier,4 than to the grateful adoption by the French nation of the children of General Foy; when the poorest and humblest citizens of France gave each his mite to shield the orphans of him who was her stay, from the honourable poverty which his virtues had bequeathed to them.5

[1 ]See “Compte rendu par 41 membres de la chambre des députés à leurs commettans,” Le National, 28 May, 1832, pp. 1-2. The manifesto, finally signed by 134 deputies of the left, and sent to their electors, deplored the prospect that France and the Revolution of July would be handed over to their enemies because the hoped-for political changes were not occurring.

[2 ]Leading article, The Times, 1 June, 1832, p. 2.

[3 ]See “Banquet allemand à Paris,” Le National, 28 May, 1832, p. 3.

[4 ]Courier, Simple discours de Paul-Louis, vigneron de la Chavonnière, aux membres du conseil de la commune de Véretz, département d’Indre-et-Loire, à l’occasion d’une souscription proposée par S.E. le ministre de l’intérieur, pour l’acquisition de Chambord (1821), in Oeuvres complètes, Vol. I, pp. 149-74. The ancient château of Chambord, a superb example of Renaissance architecture situated near Blois, had been given by Napoleon to Marshal Berthier, but after the Restoration, his widow, finding it too expensive to maintain, abandoned it. It was suggested in 1820 that a public subscription be organized to present the château to the newly-born heir to the monarchy, the son of the duchesse de Berry. In spite of Courier’s famous attack, which brought the author two months in prison and a 500-franc fine, the subscription succeeded, and the duc de Bordeaux became the comte de Chambord.

[5 ]The success of the Foy subscription, which amounted to nearly a million francs, was noted in The Times in 1826 on 19 and 31 Jan., both p. 2.