The report of the inquiry into the conduct of the judges of the Criminal Chamber shows the highly democratic nature of modern France. Everybody is as good as his neighbour and nobody trusts anybody. The doorkeepers watch the judges and disapprove of their way of conducting the case. A detective is secretly admitted to the Court by order of the Minister of Justice. Some of the military witnesses complain of "insidious questions," as if it were not the duty of judge to elicit the truth by any means in his power. The simplest acts of the judges are misrepresented in every possible way by their former colleague, M. de Beaurepire Espionage is rampant on every side.
this state of things were characteristic of France in general, the country might well be despaired of, but fortunately Paris is not France.
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