THE CLIMAX.
It must be admitted that the French people have much to be proud of, and that their habit of regarding the world as revolving round their personalities makes them collectively a great and successful people ; but sometimes their vanity is very amusing to the rest of the world.
Not long ago a French maid in the employ of a London lady was dismissed for some fault. She made a national issue of the dismissal.
“ Ah, perfidious ! ” she exclaimed. “ Infamous Albion ! You burn Joan of Arc, you kill ze great Emperor Napoleon, and now you dismiss me !
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1797, 26 August 1902, Page 7
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