And, so, Paris is surrounded in this sort of glory that was supposed to be, the Empire has collapsed on the head of France.

由此,巴黎出现了一种荣耀的氛围,这并不奇怪,法兰西腐朽的帝国政权终于分崩离析

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There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.

有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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Workers obviously didn't want a monarchy; but, in many areas of France,particularly in the south, lots of peasants did want a republic, and France becomes a republic.

工人们显然不想要君主制,而在法国许多地方,尤其是南方,很多农民确实支持共和,于是法兰西成为了共和国

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One is that during the Second Empire, which was that regime of Napoleon III that lasted from 1852 to till he was really rounded up by the Prussians in 1870.

一个是法国当时正处于法兰西第二帝国时期,在拿破仑三世的统治之下,这段时期始于一八五二年,直到一八七零年他被普鲁士军队所俘虏

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And Marc Bloch, when you read The Collapse of France, it's very interesting, interesting stuff.

还有马克·布洛克,如果你读《法兰西的覆灭》,都是很有意思的东西

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