Excerpt from France: The New Republic Two examples come easily to the mind. The source of the discredit into which the Fourth Republic fell was the con tinning war in Algeria, yet the adoption of a new Constitution, as such, did not end the Algerian war; at the best it provided better conditions for the seeking and possibly for the finding of solutions. A partly exterior event was certain to be one of the main tests of the worth of the new institutions as it had demonstrated the deficiencies of the old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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