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Burlesques

CHAPTER II
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My eagles, flying from steeple to steeple, never shall droop till they perch on the towers of Notre Dame.
"'Soldiers! the child of YOUR FATHER has remained long in exile.

I have seen the fields of Europe where your laurels are now withering, and I have communed with the dead who repose beneath them.

They ask where are our children?
Where is France?
Europe no longer glitters with the shine of its triumphant bayonets--echoes no more with the shouts of its victorious cannon.

Who could reply to such a question save with a blush ?--And does a blush become the cheeks of Frenchmen?
"'No.

Let us wipe from our faces that degrading mark of shame.


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