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On the morning of the 26th October, 1884, as his Majesty Louis Philippe was at breakfast reading the Debats newspaper, and wishing that what the journal said about "Cholera Morbus in the Camp of the Pretender Henri," "Chicken-pox raging in the Forts of the Traitor Bonaparte," might be true, what was his surprise to hear the report of a gun; and at the same instant whiz! came an eighty-four-pound ball through the window and took off the head of the faithful Monsieur de Montalivet, who was coming in with a plate of muffins.
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