edited, with critical notes, the correspondence of Alberoni Voltaire's
Siècle de Louis XIV, and Spanheim Relation de
la Cour de France. In 1890 he undertook a still more
ambitious task--the production of an Historical Manual
on the Foreign Policy of France from Richelieu to the Congress
of Berlin. This work, the ripe fruit of researches in the
archives of his own and other countries, pursued during
twenty years, has been completed in three volumes. A
fourth volume, in which the author hopes to carry the
story down to the present day, is in preparation. M. Bourgeois
' chapters in the Cambridge Modern History (vols. X,
XI and XII), on France during the Restoration, the Mon-
archy of July, the Revolution of 1848, the Second Empire
and the Third Republic, are familiar to many readers.
From Lyons he passed first to the Ecole Normale Supé-
rieure, and thence to a professorship at the University
of Paris, where, as Professor of Diplomatic and Political
History, he has prepared many pupils to take a leading
part in education and historical science. During the last
twenty years he has also taught Modern History at the
Ecole des Sciences Politiques--an institution in which
most of the higher members of the public services in
France, especially of the Corps Diplomatique, receive their
training. These professorships he still holds.

In the work before us, M. Bourgeois has traced the lines
of that remarkable political evolution through which France
has been able to realise the principles and to establish the
institutions of democracy--an evolution retarded at one

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