Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recognition of the monarchical form of government over French subjects. The visit of the empress Friedrick to Paris was marked by respect on the part of the French. But when it appeared that this visit was merely to give Wilhelm a chance to say, "There you see reconciliation," Frenchmen said, "No, we will not have reconciliation...
...Monthly for June is entertaining if not conspicuously original. Prof. Cohn writes admiringly of one Frenchman, and R. W. Herrick unadmiringly of all Frenchmen. M. Cohn's paper is a brief resume of Emile Augier's literary character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof...
...Alsace-Lorraine Bismarck linked the German nation against paying attention to the voice of the people. He declared later that it was a mistake for Alsace-Lorraine to be represented in the Reichstag, for it was not for the sake of inoculating the German parliament with a number of Frenchmen that Alsace Loraine was annexed...