When the plebiscite was taken in France to decide whether Napoleon III. should be Emperor, the number of votes cast in his favour was 7,119,791. Against him there were 1,119,000 votes.
If these numbers are written down quite plainly, as is shown above, with a dividing line, and without the three cyphers, and the paper or card on which they are strongly marked is reversed and held up against the light, the very word with which they were concerned, “empereur,” stands out with startling distinctness.
It can be drawn on thin cardboard with good effect.
AN IMPERIAL ANAGRAM
A sa Majesté impériale le Tsar Nicolas, souverain et autocrat de toutes les Russies.
The same letters exactly spell—
O, ta vanité sera ta perte. O, elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs te maudiront à jamais!
This most remarkable anagram was published in the early days of the Crimean war.