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Napoleon's Corkscrews

This was reported in the Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York

Corrector

on November 11,

1854:

―

We are told, that when the Empress of the French [Eugenie] visits England, she

will appear in a shawl worth forty thousand francs, with the arms of England and

France woven in lace. This to be typical of the coming free trade in thread and cotton.

Punch

's own correspondent observes, in addition, that the Emperor's dress waistcoat

will be ornamented with a border of corkscrews and grape vines, as emblematic of his

intentions of throwing open France to English steel, that England may, in return, take

cheap French wine.

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