…not to mention that the collapse of the Second Empire manifested in Paris with a short-lived municipal government called the Paris Commune, which is memorable as the conduit onto the world stage of the obscure scribblings of a London-based German nutjob named Karl Marx.

***(i just love this editor thingie, warts and all!)

marty, ouch, right, tail vs dog, i hear ya. But consider a smaller circle within the circle, that while France attended the first mexican revolution, who was in there next, manipulating the next one, but them same Bismarckians -?