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" for three days now the population of Paris has been wonderful in its physical  beauty. They wanted, the scum, to make the bourgeoisie in their own image- all stomach and paunch- while the People moaned from hunger. The people and the bourgeoisie have shaken from the body of France the lice of corruption and immortality. Whoever wants to see beautiful men, men six feet tall, let him come to France. " Charles Baudelaire, Le Salut public 1848.