M. Prevost Paradol, prince of Orleanist epigrammatists, happened to be
at Biarritz when the Emperor received the ex-Queen of :Spain. The Patrie thereupon declared that he had followed the -ex-Queen from Sebastian to Pau, "desiring a near view of the col- lapse of a dynasty." M. Prevost Paradol thereupon, in a pungent little letter, corrects the error, and adds, "AS to 'the collapse of a -dynasty,' it is a spectacle often enough afforded to the Parisians, as you know, without their taking the trouble of leaving their houses to seek it ; and allow me to add that you neglect nothing, your friends and yourself, in order that the present generation be not more deprived of it than those that went before." All the Parisian papers publish ihat, and then the Economist is seized -for remarks in English on French disaffection.
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