Letter to Juste Vernouillet, February 3, 1875

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 3 February 1875


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 34, Moscow, 1964
Printed according to the copy of the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


MARX TO JUSTE VERNOUILLET6*

IN PARIS

[London, 3 February 1875]

...The Bonapartist gentry, or so it would seem, have finally succeeded in alarming the Orleanists, who will now hastily and after their own fashion botch up a republic for you.[1] But once constituted it will, I believe, also frustrate Orleanist intrigue, put an end to the Rurals'" régime and potter along in its own way...

  1. ↑ On 21 January 1875, the French National Assembly began debating the draft 'law on the organisation of public authority' which formed part of the 1875 Constitution. The fundamental issue—the nature of the state system in France — was to be solved in the debate on the amendments to the Bill held on 29 and 30 January. By the final vote on 30 January the Constitution indirectly recognised the state system as a republic.