Au Revoir mb-code 00484148 on the morning of 2nd

on the morning of 2nd January

'Commerce and Sea Power'

The queen is being carried by her armed guard and flanked by her courtiers

Cltie was the daughter of Oceanus

the wife of novelist Charles Dickens

Au Revoir mb-code 00484148 on the morning of 2ndAu Revoir, 1873. Germany, carrying a bag stuffed with cash, says farewell to France. A defiant France insists it is not farewell, just au revoir. Following France's disastrous war against Prussia, the newly unified Germany settled on the terms of a huge war indemnity being paid by France. The money was in fact raised very quickly and, in September 1873, a year and a half before the deadline agreed, the final German troops left France. From Punch, or