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November 5th, 1873: Parisian gossip and political intrigueBACK PAGES: The Irish Times kept a close eye on France in the early 1870s as the Franco-Prussian War was followed by the Paris Commune and the political machinations of monarchists, republicans and Bonapartists in the Third Republic, presided over by Marshal Patrice MacMahon, a descendant of Irish Jacobites.
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