Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... TYRANNY OVER THE PUBLIC PRESS. 229 A few days after his abdication, he walked in the garden of the palace for two hours with marshal Macdonald, conversing on the new con "Prohibitions to the 'Publicist' from the Minister of Police." To announce any nomination before it appeared in the Moniteur. Ever to mention the ancient name of the French provinces, such as Normandy, Languedoc, Touraine, Burgundy, &c. To announce the launching of any ship of war. To mention any accident which might be attributed to neglect on the part of the police, such as murders, robberies, fires, persons run over, tiles or flower-pots falling on the heads of persons in the streets, or suicides; as the common people very frequently destroy themselves, and this evinces the misery of the times. Want of rain, or too much, inundations, hail-storms, &c. There was a very considerable inundation in the department of the Ain in the spring of 1810; they received special orders not to mention this, as no distress must be supposed to exist in the empire. The motions of the army, or even of any military officer of high rank. To criticise the public monuments erected by the government, some of which were begun in time of war; but were first exhibited, cleared of the scaffolding, and in a finished state when peace existed with the power over which they were intended as monuments of triumph. In 1810, when the triumphal arch on the Place Carousel was opened, France was at peace with Austria, and all the bas-reliefs represented the degradation of that power: they were ordered only to speak of it as a work of art, and not to mention the subjects of the sculpture or the inscriptions. Forbidden to use the word Poland; but always to term it the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. stitution, and on...
