She is at home in every quarter of the globe.

French is spoken, and will continue to be spoken, in Africa, Asia, America, Oceania.

Seeds of sovereignty are sown in all parts of the world.

They will prosper under the protection of Heaven." [E] [Footnote E: Hanotaux, "Fashoda et le partage de l'Afrique."] The same statesman criticized, with ill-concealed hatred, the German policy: "It will be for history to decide what has been the leading thought of Germany and her Government during the complicated disputes under which the partition of Africa and the last phase of French colonial policy were ended.

We may assume that at first the adherents to Bismarck's policy saw with satisfaction how France embarked on distant and difficult undertakings, which would fully occupy the attention of the country and its Government for long years to come.