That is why the Socialists number among their adherents all classes and all conditions of men, from Anatole France, most fastidious of literary aristocrats, to gaunt and hungry proletarians who infest the cellars and garrets of ancient Paris.
The French are, after all, the greatest of realists. They speculate in dreams and delicate theories; but they never lose their grip on their little farms and their little shops and the gold bonds of Russia.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Georges Weil, Histoire du Mouvement Socialiste en France, Paris, 1904, p. 220.
[2] Other groups—the word party is hardly applicable in the French Chamber of Deputies—are the reactionary Right; the republican Conservatives, or Center; the Radical Left, or Liberals.
[3] Weil, supra cit., p. 276.
[4] In France, when any one candidate for the Chamber of Deputies fails to receive a majority of the votes cast, a second ballot is taken, for the two receiving the highest number of votes
[5] Quoted by Ensor, Modern Socialism, pp. 48-55. See also a collection of Millerand's speeches, Le Socialisme Réformiste Français, Paris, 1903.
[6] See "Manifeste 14 Juillet," 1899.