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Thu 11 Nov 2009November 5th, 1873: Parisian gossip and political intrigue
BACK PAGES:The Irish Timeskept 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.
The newspaper’s anonymous correspondent in Paris kept up a lively commentary on all aspects of French life and political intrigue under the heading “Continental Gossip”.
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