William Henry Hurlbert, France and the Republic
“ To say this is to say that the Third Republic does not exist in France by the will of the French people; [Pg xcvii] and this I believe to be absolutely true. The Third Republic exists by virtue of the control which its partisans have acquired of the administrative machinery of the Government, or, in other words, by virtue of political corruption and intimidation. So great has been the multiplication of functionaries great and small under the Third Republic, that it is not easy to get at an accurate estimate of their numbers. ”
