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We arc nothing but machines.
Our Babels mount to the sky.
Refrain: Let us love and, when we can,
Let us meet to drink a round,
Let the cannon fall silent or erupt­
We drink, we drink, we drink
To the independence of the world!
Pierre Dupont, Le Chant des ouvriers (Paris, 1848).
Last verse and refrain:
If, in truth, a despicable mob,
Having fire and iron in its store,
Wants to shackle the body and soul
Of the people, truc child of God,
Reveal to these depraved,
o Republic, by foiling their plots,
Your great Medusa face
Ringed by t'ed lightning!
o tutelary Republic,
Do not ascend to the skies,
Ideal incarnated here on earth
By universal suffrage.
From the fourth verse:
Ah! Let no nocturnal surprise
Break in on the polls!
Stand guard round the ballot box:
'Tis the arch of our destiny.
Pierre Dupont, Le Chant du vote (Paris, 1850).
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In chapters like "Le Vrai Sublime;' "Le Fils de Dieu;' "Le Subfune des sublimes,"
"Le Marchand de vins," "Le Chansonnier des sublimes," Poulot treats of types
intermediate between worker and apache. The book is refonnist; first published
in 1869. Denis Poulot, O:yes/ion sociale: "Le Sublime," new ed. (paris). [a7,4]
A proposal from Louis Napoleon's Extinction du pauperisme (p. 123), cited in
Henry Fougere, Les Delegations ouvrieres aux expositions universelles sous Ie
Second Empire (Montluon, 1905), p. 23: '"All managers of factories 01' farms, all
entrepreneurs of any kind, would be obliged by law, as soon as they had employed
more than ten workers, to have an arbitrator who would govern their affairs, and
to whom they would pay a salary double that of the simple workers." [a7a,1]
"'This people, victorious, who strode barefoot upon gold / Strewn across their path,
and did not succumb" (Hegesippe Moreau). Motto of the newspaper L'Aimable