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Professor Leon Dupriez, of the University of Louvain, will give the third of his series of lectures on "La Representation Proportionnelle en Belgique," in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. His special subject will be "La Loi du 29 December, 1899, et son Application." The lectures are given in French and are open to the public. The fourth and last lecture will be given Thursday...
...Godkin lectures. III. "La loi du 29 December, 1899, et son application," by Professor Dupriez, in Emerson...
...Boutroux is one of the foremost thinkers in France today, and is ranked probably as her leading philosopher. He has embodied his doctrines in several books, the most famous of which are "De la Contingence de Lois de la Nature," "Etudes d'Histoire de la Philosophie," and "De l'Idee de la Loi Naturelle dans la Science et la Philosophie Contemporaine...
...Anglo-Saxon Maupassant sometime seems shocking, but this is because it is only the Gaul who can appreciate his delicate touch. The disposition of the Gauls is to adore the forces of nature, and in their anxiety they leaned towards what La Fontaine called "la bonne loi naturelle." So Maupassant loves nature with a religious tenderness and sincerity which no poet has equalled...
...Hervieu believes this adulated idol is far from being happy. He sees her subjected to and caught in "Les Tenailles" of wedlock, and believes here to be oppressed by "La Loi de I'Homme" Against this subjection and oppression of woman, his sense of justice revolts, and from them, through the medium of his writings, has he sought to free here. The Roman law as it is manifested and re-imbodied in the Napoleonic code, appears to him unjust. He would like to emancipate women entirely, and he desires also to have French social legislation framed after the pattern...