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From: byker@do~rag.net

On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 7:47:05 PM UTC-3, WolfBear wrote:

If France has its monarchy restored in the early 1870s and WWI still
occurs as in real life, do the newly independent Eastern European
countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic countries, Finland, et
cetera) become monarchies after WWI in this scenario?

Speaking of the French monarchy, I thought you all might enjoy this contemporary cartoon of Louis Philippe I, the last of the French kings:

https://tinyurl.com/y76xr9hu

Here's the context: There was a huge amount of tension between the classes
in France at the time (1831). "Gargantua" shows King Louis Philippe as a
giant who greedily eats up bags of taxes from peasants. His appetite seems endless. But that's not a throne he's sitting on -- it's a toilet. He shits
out contracts that are snatched up by the well-to-do. The king was
usually pretty good about going along with jokes, but this time the artist
was thrown in jail for five months and the newspaper shut down for this
nasty drawing...

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