Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Royalists? Fùck me, lads. 1848 was a while back. Let it go. That ship has sailed.

Disappointed by the lack of Bonapartists, tbh.
I'm planning to actually get my first Gilet Jaune for this Saturday. I'm gonna write 3RD EMPIRE NOW on the back.

I mean, all the France Insoumise lot want a 6th Republic. The commies want their 1st workers' dictatorship. The royalists want the 3rd Monarchy. So I'm gonna march for a 3rd Empire.

I'm afarid I have a bit of a soft-spot for both Boneys.

Louis-Napoleon introduced a lot of progressive social reform while allowing Haussman to built the world's most beautiful city.

And while the original one had many bad points, he was top boy on the battlefield front.