The Member for Paris, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the Second Empire (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Pitch, came, thanks to the grim 1rony of fate, by the death of a democrat. For, when the slain were picked up on the evening of that glorious day which slew a republic and founded a dynasty, the Legitimist duke was found lying side by side with a subversive sweep, a costermonger of socialist tendencies, and a small boy, three foot high, who must have been wicked beyond his years, seeing that out of his bleeding, perverse little hand was snatched a red toy-flag emblazoned with the heinous words, Vice la Liberte'

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