Vulgar words in France in the Nineteenth Century (Page 1)
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Muskets in the crowd were here levelled at the speaker, but were knocked up by the more peaceable of his hearers.
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Sir Charles Dilke tells us that in 1887, when a friend of his was going to France, he asked him to ascertain for him if General Boulanger were a soldier, a mountebank, or an ass; and the answer brought back to him was, "He is a little of them all."