POLITICAL SCIENCE- 



Creative achievement in the legal and political sciences 

 has long been eminent in France, as is testified by the 

 early commentaries and treatises of CUJAS, DONEAU, 



BODIN, GODEFROY, DuMOULIN, DOMAT, POTHIER, ROUS- 



SEAU, MONTESQUIEU, and many others. During the 

 early and middle nineteenth century, the literature of 

 political science was enriched by the writings of Benjamin 

 CONSTANT, ROYER-COLLARD, CHATEAUBRIAND, GUIZOT, 

 ROSSI, DE TOCQUEVILLE, DE BROGLIE, PREVOST-PARADOL, 

 Jules SIMON, VIVIEN, DUPONT-WHITE, LABOULAYE, and 

 a host of others. As early as 1834 a chair of constitutional 

 law was established at Paris; it was occupied for ten 

 years by the famous Rossi, who resigned it in 1845 to 

 become ambassador to Rome. In 1871 fimile BOUTMY 

 founded at Paris the "Ecole Libre des Sciences Poli- 

 tiques," a school which has done much to stimulate inter- 

 est in the study of political science, and which is today 

 attended by a large number of students. Boutmy during 

 his lifetime contributed much to the literature of political 

 science, and his works are well-known and admired in 

 America. 



The achievements of recent French scholarship in this 

 field, as in so many others, have not generally been ap- 

 preciated at their full value in America. In quantity of 

 output the Germans have undoubtedly outstripped the 

 French. But in quality the contributions of French 



1 [Drafting Committee: J. W. GARNER, University of Illinois; 

 L. C. MARSHALL, University of Chicago; J. S. REEVES, University of 

 Michigan; A. P. USHER, Cornell University. ED.] 



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