Excerpt from Jules Ferry La parole, pour Jules Ferry, c'est son arme d'offen sive aussi bien que de d fense. D'un succ s ou d'une d faite oratoire d pendirent les destin es de pays plus tendus que la France et les destin es m mes de la France. C'est la Chambre des d put s, et non sur les champs de bataille du Tonkin, qu'il fut d cid , le 30 mars 1885, que la campagne de lang-son, un de nos plus brillants succ s coloniaux, avait t un d sastre. 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.