_Answer_. Towels and Soap.


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NAPOLEON'S LATEST MANIFESTO TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE.

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True citizens of France I've the very great felicity--
It almost overpowers me as you well can understand;
To give to the proud triumph of my policy publicity,
Majority six millions. Ah! _Mon Dieu!_ but it is grand.

'Tis true the Empire's Capital, the centre of authority,
Went against me in a fit of Red Republican romance;
But the Provinces in rolling up their glorious majority
Have proved, despite of precedents, that Paris is not France.

Self-contained and unembarrassed, I awaited at the Tuileries
The issue, for I trusted the Nation's Common Sense;
And although the rowdy _Faubourgs_ tried a few of their Tom-fooleries,
My soldiers soon let light into each trumpery defence.

I smile in cold contempt at the Old-time Barricade tricks--
Each street, did I so order, were a cannon-swept defile,
I've bound Fortune to my Chariot, and defying all her jade tricks,
More in pity that in anger hear the roar of the _Canaille_.