2/20 Socialists are noisy, but rarely clever. A man who in France describes himself as Moderate must not expect to be popular for any length of time. The Orleanists were only just out of office. It was scarcely a year since Louis Philippe had died in exile at Claremont--only three years since he signed his abdication and hurried across to Newhaven. It was not the turn of the Orleanists. |