As every Christmas a number of books are published containing stories about dogs as remarkable as they are stale, I recommend to their authors these two veracious tales.

Their veracity is guaranteed by Parisian journalists.
Can better evidence be required?
We are already discussing who will be sent to Germany.

We suppose that the army and the Mobiles, and perhaps the officers of the National Guard will have to make the journey.

One thing, I do hope that the Prussians will convey across the Rhine all the Parisian journalists, and keep them there until they are able to pass an elementary examination in the literature, the politics, the geography, and the domestic economy of Germany.

A little foreign travel would do these blind leaders of the blind a world of good, and on their return they would perhaps have cleared their minds of their favourite delusion that civilization is co-terminous with the frontiers of France.
How M.Picard provides for the financial requirements of his colleagues is a mystery.