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    LORD LYONS

    VOLUME II

[Illustration: _Lord Lyons, at the age of 65._

LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD.]




    LORD LYONS

    A RECORD OF BRITISH DIPLOMACY

    BY
    LORD NEWTON

    IN TWO VOLUMES

    VOLUME II

    WITH PORTRAITS

    LONDON
    EDWARD ARNOLD
    1913

    _All rights reserved_




CONTENTS OF VOL. II


    CHAPTER X

    THE THIRD REPUBLIC

    1871-1873
                                                                PAGE

    Thiers as Chief of the Executive--Negotiations respecting a new
    Anglo-French Commercial Treaty--Return of the Princes--Embarrassment
    caused by the Comte de Chambord--Question
    of voting in the House of Lords--Thiers elected President--State
    of parties in France--Irritation in Germany against Thiers--Diplomatic
    incident at Constantinople--Signature of Anglo-French
    Commercial Treaty--Death of the Emperor Napoleon--Lord
    Odo Russell on Bismarck's policy--Fall of Thiers--Bismarck
    and Arnim                                                      1


    CHAPTER XI

    MARSHAL MACMAHON'S