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" We are tired of seeing Paris have all by himself the fate of the country "(Anonymous, 1871)

" Forward citoliens [sic] Fouilly of-the-geese! Come correct Paris !..." Drawing signed: "Brutal, April 2, 1871," Imp. Heels, Paris, 1871.

"Parisians

It seems that 'now, you are terribly angry against us poor provincial: judging from what I hear from various quarters, jokes, cartoons, sarcasm, evil epithets ringing thick as rain hail on us and on our chosen representatives. I saw myself on some newspaper expressions that would cost me to reproduce. Egad!

Gentlemen, ah! Forgiveness: citizens, should I say to them- Fouilly Geese, we respect more. You assign a modest reputation as spiritual people of the earth, for sure, this is not how you manage to justify it. And what is the cause of all this uproar, the overflow of bile?

You reproach us, unless I am mistaken, for not being devout Republican, you blame us jealous of Paris, he is even going to blame us for having contributed to the misfortunes of our country by voting in the plebiscite, but the latter charge slips slyly into the conversations and did not dare, that I know, spread in the columns of your major newspapers. If she ever dared, we would respond, you can be safe and soundly. As for the first two that we see everywhere reproduced ad nauseam, are good that we do not let them unanswerable.

Ah! you blame us for not being devout Republicans! Well! we blame, we, people of Fouilly les Geese , shouting without knowing Republic define what the word means, and especially without wanting to make the bonds that form of government requires.

Furthermore, we declare very clearly that we are tired of seeing Paris have all by himself the fate of the country, change all by itself, by the law of the riot, the shape of government, thus preventing the sincere implementation of the principles and institutions distort. If this is what you call jealousy Paris, you're not wrong.

We accuse the Republicans profess to have been from 92, the main authors of all unrest, and we accuse Paris of having given them by the political dictatorship that has the means to disrupt the country of any change on several occasions, though they have been so far, and that 'they are still a minority.

Finally, we dare say that, despite your loud professions of republicanism, if there is something difficult to find among you is a true Republican. It shows, indeed, men in number, who give themselves to each other, and marked with an assignment, the title of citizens who are at the bottom of their letters: hello and brotherhood , dating back to their newspapers or Frimaire Vendémiaire but it is not enough for us to prove genuinely held, and above all rational belief. In this use of certain formulas in this resurrection of the republican calendar (which was good timing, politics aside), we find nothing but a reminiscence of an awkward time strange, complex, where the heroic allied themselves a monstrous moral aberration. Ah! reminiscences of history! what evils they have caused! To them we owe much of Caesars; To them we owe much to the enthusiasm of tribunes dummy; it is to them that we had to Gracchus in Phrygian cap and blouse in Brutus. Come on! go! enough parodies!

That is a bit stiff, as you say in Paris, but at Fouilly les geese, we will not mince words: what we think people, they are told opposite, and what they say, you prove it.

With this adorable sufficiency that characterizes you, you say that we are all people without lights and trial. Doubtless he is here more a type of this species but is there any among you? The only difference between your ignorant and ours is that some are presumptuous and sharp, others very shy.

You claim that only concern of our fields and our cattle, we're cheap noble aspirations for independence and freedom: the truth is that we care as much as you. But so far, a certain apathy and exaggerated sense of our inadequacy led us to summarize all our aspirations in a convenient enthusiasm for some individuality, to let, to receive, eyes closed, everything that we had the capital. We begin to realize that we were wrong. Believe me, gentlemen Parisians, it is more than one among us who are educated and able to think, they finally understand that free institutions require all those who are worthy and capable of exerting some influence around them the duty to work hard, in short, that noblesse oblige: they are well resolved. "

Anonymous Letters to the Parisians. As an inhabitant of Fouilly les Geese, Meaux, Impr. Cochet, 1871.