For that sad 'Seventy which must intervene,

Provide poor France with other work to mind

Than settling lawsuits, even for the sake

Of such a party as The Ravissante.

It only was this Summer that the case

Could come and be disposed of, two weeks since,

At Vire—Tribunal Civil—Chamber First.

Here, issued with all regularity,

I hold the judgment—just, inevitable,

Nowise to be contested by what few