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when I'm in a real frenzy of contempt
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for the destruction of the Parisian skyline.
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But, anyway,
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this is looking down from Montmartre,
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and here you've got the image of-- the female image of liberty,
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Marianne, and she comes in as the provisional government
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that is going to capitulate France,
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it's going to give up,
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but not that it's going to make a damn bit of difference.
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And then Adolph Thiers,
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who somebody once called a miserable gnome--t-h-i-e-r-s,
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Adolph Thiers is there and he's cutting off the right arm of France,