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Several days later a bomb destroyed the restaurant,
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Le Very, killing the patron,
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the owner, leading to the ghoulish pun
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that served as an anarchist signature, verification.
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Ravachol so terrified contemporaries that
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for a time his name became a French verb;
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to ravacholiser quelqu'un, somebody, was to dynamite them.
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And after his death the anarchists of Paris
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and their exiled friends in London,
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from all over the continent,
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debated long into the night the wisdom of such attacks.
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A wood print