The Franco-Prussian War, a cautionary tale in 22 tweets

By EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 8:22pm |

1/Gather round, my friends, and let me tell you the epic story of the Franco-Prussian War.https://t.co/pMRgyPWZFn pic.twitter.com/xAz5s1tqW0
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) July 26, 2020

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I saw that! Liked it too.

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 8:56pm

Interesting new-to-me parallels with Napoleon III. Before I only noticed a shared taste for Second Empire interiors. :D

by EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/26/2020 - 10:40pm

I like those interiors as well. But as for personal druthers, Biedermeier is almost always better, like buttah. Just a bourgeois at heart, that's me.

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 12:52am

I like the simplicity of the small room especially the masonry heater but not the antlers over the door. Why do people like to hang parts of dead animals on their walls?

by EmmaZahn on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 1:44am

retort - not so fast. First, N3 was NOT a bombastic babbling idiot. This portrayal of him is a third-republic retelling largely unconnected to the truth. N3 gave bonapartism consistent, if not genial, intellectual foundations; he understood modern economics & was conscious of the changes brought abt..
— Gabriel Barrès (@BarresGabriel) July 26, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 12:26am

The Franco-Prussian War, a cautionary tale in 22 tweets

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