ABSTRACT
The history of the Republic and of the Empire since the Revolution had been one of invasion and abasement, civil, religious, and moral agitation. The Jewish element, the real core of the Republican party, through its fixity of purpose, its wealth, its hereditary and religious organization, was able, working with its three allies—masonry, Protestantism, meteques—to control and to direct the entire political life of France. The foreign elements within France made up "an international cluster of public powers," from the real rulers—the forces of oligarchy and money—to the leaders of the Socialist movement. Regimes since the Revolution had lost French territory and humiliated the country. The regime created weakness on all sides—lack of discipline and demoralization among the people, and neglect of building a navy, army, and police force. Since foreign policy was forbidden to the Republic, the regime was condemned to irritating maneuvers, dangerous for the integrity of the country and the independence of the inhabitants.
