PERIODICALS

nesses of the French way were calami-tously revealed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when France's overly central- ized system could not get troops to the front in time to stop the Prussians.
At various times during its history-no- tably during the revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848-the Corps and all it stood for were endangered the brief ascendancy of politicians and ideas in the classical lib- eral mode of Adam Smith. Between the 1880s and World War 11, these ideas did p...