Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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. His throne was burned, andanother republic was declared, with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew ofthe great Napoleon, as president for four years. When his term of office expired, another revolution broke out duringwhich he quietly gathered the reins in his own hands as his uncle had done,and was declared Emperor Napoleon III. This last monarchy lasted until the war with Prussia in 1870, broughton by Napoleon III. without cause, and ending disastrously for the French.The assembly declared that he was the cause of the calamities of the warand that none of his family should ever occupy the throne of France je. France. 315 Then the present republic was set np, which has, so far, successfully resistedthe pretensions of two lines of monarchs, and the easily excited passions ofthe people. The Bee ad Crust Dealer.—The people of France have the virtues ofindustry and economy in a marked degree. By careful management theylive comfortably, and even elegantly, on wages that others find hardly
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TAKING THE BASTILE. enough to keep them alive. They are very ingenious, too, in finding waysof making money. A remarkable example of both these virtues was an old French soldierwho made a fortune out of what many people throw away. Returning to Paris after the battle of Waterloo, he found his servicesno longer needed in the army, and he had no other means of support, hismilitary training having unfitted him for a trade, and he had no capital.The only thing he found to do to keep him from starving, was rag pickingwhich he tried for a time, but it led to meetings with his old comrades andhe could not bear their scoffs. He changed his occupation to rag sorting : 316 Persons and Places in Europe. where lie could remain indoors, but this made him sick and he was takento the hospital. While there he fell in with a poultry fattener, with whom,after he came out, he worked until he had saved quite a little sum ofmoney. With this he proposed to start in business for himself, and waslooking abou

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