Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 by Various
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_Paragraph_ 2. All men are equal, but Frenchmen are highly superior to all other men. _Paragraph_ 3. In order to secure peace, it is decreed and plebiscited that all governments shall have a chance. For the next ten years, or less, the Orleans Dynasty shall rule; after that a BONAPARTE for a few years; then a Republic, "democratic and social," as long as it can keep on its legs. After that a second Republic, for a twelvemonth at least. Then an old BOURBON, if one can be found. After this, a military dictatorship; the army to decide its duration. At each change the people will decide by plebiscit whether they want the respective governments to be: _personal_, _legal_, or neither. _Paragraph_ 4.--But here we must stop. * * * * * Titans. The _Liberté_ says: "A lot of crazy fellows tried to proclaim the republic at Toulouse." Now there are manifestly two errors in this statement. The fellows alluded to were not Toulouse, but too tight fellows. Moreover, if they really had been crazies, as the _Liberté_ supposes, they would have been instantly arrested and sent to Paris, under guard, by the way of the Madder line, to await the action of the Prefect of the Sane. * * * * * |
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