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Updated: May 8, 2025
Some years before, the Parisians had been very much displeased at the establishment of import dues on all alimentary substances. The writers of that epoch preserved the burlesque Alexandrine, which was placarded all over the town, on the erection of the Octroi circumvallation: "Le mur murant Paris, rend Paris murmurant."
Whence the following jeu de mots: "Le mur, murant Paris, rend Paris murmurout." During the revolution, it was by no means uncommon to shut the barrieres, in order to serve the purposes of party, and favour the arrest of particular persons.
Since that time Paris has undergone yet another transformation, unfortunately for our eyes; but it has passed only one more wall, that of Louis XV., that miserable wall of mud and spittle, worthy of the king who built it, worthy of the poet who sung it, Le mur murant Paris rend Paris murmurant.* * The wall walling Paris makes Paris murmur.
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