Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2)

PREFACE

One of the most burlesque incidents of the glorious epoch in which
we have the good fortune to live side by side with Deutz and General
Bugeaud, is, beyond question, the rehabilitation of virtue undertaken
by all the newspapers, of whatever color they may be, red, green, or
tri-colored.

Virtue is most assuredly a very respectable thing, and we h...