THE BOOK OF
FROGS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF GLORY
The Frogs dig up another Napoleon
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For example, they grabbed a bunch of ccolonies in Africa that nobody else wanted,
2As if glory could be extracted from worthless territory simply by inventing a romantic but completely irrelevant military unit called the dFrench Foreign Legion.
3Then, after waiting out a decent interval of renewed rule by Louis’s, they dug up another eNapoleon,
4fWho was cleverly inserted into the old scheme by adding Louis to his name,
5gAnd announced to the world that they were an empire once again,
6hWhich irritated Germany no end,
7iWith the result that the Germans attacked France and reminded the Frogs that without a Corsican general, they were the same silly, vainglorious losers they had always been.
8The French stewed about this for more than forty years,
9jWaiting for one more chance,
10Somehow unable to remember that Napoleon Bonaparte was stone-cold dead,
11Just like the glory of France.
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