Peter Parley's Universal history, on the basis of geography

QUESTIONS.-1. What were the titles of Napoleon? 2. What happened wherever he went? What was he called? 3. What happened in 1812? What of the French army? 5. What of Napoleon? 6. What happened to him? 7. How long did Napoleon remain at Elba? What of him in 1815? Describe his landing in France. 8. Who led the nations of Europe? What did Napoleon do? Who followed him? 9. When was the battle of Waterloo fought? Fate of Napoleon?

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RECENT AFFAIRS OF FRANCE.

1. LOUIS the Eighteenth, the new king of France, was a fat, quiet, respectable sort of old gentleman, and seems to have been chiefly distinguished for his love of oysters. He died in 1824, and was succeeded by his brother, Charles the Tenth.

2. It was said of all the Bourbon family, that they had learned nothing during their exile from France, nor forgotten anything. And Charles soon proved that he had not forgotten that his ancestors had exercised absolute power, nor learnt that such power is very dangerous to possess or exercise.

3. In 1830, when Charles the Tenth had sat on the throne about six years, he forbade, among other things, the printing of any newspapers, except such as praised his conduct and

government.

4. The mob of Paris immediately rose, and began a war against the royal troops. They beat out the brains of the

king's soldiers with paving-stones, and shot them from the windows of the houses. The old king, who had not forgotten the days of the revolution, began to tremble for his head.

5. In order to keep it on his shoulders, he took from it his golden crown, and put it on the head of his grandson. But the French would not acknowledge the little fellow for their king. They drove Charles the Tenth and his family out of the kingdom.

6. They then asked the good and glorious La Fayette (the man who fought on the side of the Americans in the time of their Revolution) what sort of a government they should have. He would have chosen a republic, like that of the United States; but he knew that his countrymen were not like the Americans.

7. He therefore told them that the government must be a limited monarchy, and that Louis Philippe the duke of Orleans, must be their king. Louis Philippe, was accordingly raised to the throne.

8. Louis Philippe, king of the French, reigned nearly eighteen years, and governed France prudently, and raised his kingdom to a high state of prosperity; but he did not act rightly with some of his family, and his fickle subjects got tired of him and wanted a change. Accordingly in 1848 they compelled him to quit the kingdom, which he did, rather than cause his soldiers to shed the blood of Frenchmen.

9. But sad confusion threatened to follow. Some patriotic

men formed what is called a provisional government; but this was disliked, and the good archbishop of Paris was killed in endeavouring to stop the rioters. At last Prince Louis Napoleon, the nephew of the great emperor Napoleon, acquired the supreme power under the title of President of the French Republic.

10. But he was not contented with this, but pretending that a conspiracy was formed against him, he caused his soldiers to make a terrible onslaught in Paris, and finally made himself Emperor under the name of Napoleon III. Since which he married Eugenie, a Spanish lady of noble birth, and has governed France with vigour and wisdom.

QUESTIONS.-1. What of Louis XVIII? When did he die? 2. What was said of the Bourbon family? What did Charles prove? 3. What took place in 1830? 4. What of the mob of Paris? 5. What did the old king do? 6. What did the French ask La Fayette? 7. What did he tell them? Who was made king? 8. What of Louis Philippe? How came he to be deposed? 9. What followed his deposition? And who succeeded him in governing France? 10. How did Prince Louis Napoleon gain the crown of France?

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CHRONOLOGY OF FRANCE.

THE Gäel, Gäil, Gauls, or Celts, began to migrate into Europe from
Asia, as is supposed, about
General migration of the Guals to different parts of Europe
Italy ravaged by the Gauls, and Rome taken

B.C.

2000

397

396

The Gauls make destructive incursions into Macedon and B.C. Greece

A colony of Belgæ settled in France

The southern part of Greece along the Mediterranean conquered by the Romans