The Jews rise high in Fiance. It appears from an
Annuaire published by the community in Paris that two Jews sit in the Senate, three in the Chamber, four in the Council of State, and two in the Supreme Council of Public Education. One Cabinet Minister, M. David Raynal, is a Jew, and so are no less than ten chiefs of Ministerial departments, who are probably more powerful than Ministers. Three Prefects are Jews, seven Sub- Prefects, and four Inspectors-General of Education. The same community furnishes two Generals of Division, three Generals of Brigade, four Colonels and nine Lieutenant-Colonels, one Judge of the Court of Cassation (the President), and ten pro- vincial Judges. Mr. Disraeli ascribed to his tribesmen the faculty of accumulation in a supreme degree, but they have also the faculty of getting on in the intellectual professions.
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