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The Dead Skunk

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58 feature instances
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The Dead Skunk	label	The Dead Skunk
The Dead Skunk	page	TheDeadSkunk
The Dead Skunk	comment	Early in the morning on December 23, 1814, a British invasion force landed in the Louisiana bayou. When they were eight miles downriver from the city of New Orleans, they stopped. The next day, Andrew Jackson attackedâ€¦ and the rest is history.In the world of The Dead Skunk (written by Lycaon pictus, a.k.a. lockswriter), they go eight miles further and take the city. When Andrew Jackson tries to burn it down, the New Orleanians turn on him.A day later, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Treaty of Ghent is signed. The British are supposed to be leaving, but now New Orleans doesnâ€™t want them to go.Just in case the war is about to start up again, British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool orders the Duke of Wellington and his army to America. The last of them takes ship on the very day Napoleon escapes from Elba.And then things get complicatedâ€¦Can be found here or here. Not to be confused with Troper Dead Skunk.
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The Dead Skunk / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Dead Skunk / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: It takes a lot of stabbing and shooting to kill Andrew Jackson.
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The Dead Skunk / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Dead Skunk / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Henry Brougham, of all people, succumbs to the urge.
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The Dead Skunk / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
The Dead Skunk / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Some of Morriset's soldiers in Naples inflict this on local women. It doesn't end well.
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The Dead Skunk / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Dead Skunk / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: "Death in the mirror," used by Morriset in Naples on his worst enemies. Imagine being hanged. Now imagine being hanged in such a way that you slowly choke to death instead of having your neck snapped. Now imagine there's a mirror hanging right in front of you, so you can watch yourself asphyxiate. You can't move your head enough to turn away. You can't even shut your eyes for the pressure behind them. All you can do is keep staring yourself in the face until everything goes black.
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The Dead Skunk / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
The Dead Skunk / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: JosÃ© de San MartÃn and Bernardo Oâ€™Higgins making their final stand at Chacabuco.
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The Dead Skunk / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Dead Skunk / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Italy suffers from the misfortune of going through invasion and civil war during 1816 â€” the "Year Without a Summer." War plus bad harvests equals famine, and where you get famineâ€¦
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The Dead Skunk / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
The Dead Skunk / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: Elba, of course. As one character puts it, the Sixth Coalition â€œput the most dangerous man alive in a â€˜prisonâ€™ with no bars, no locks and no guards but one Scotsman with no official sanction and a bad war wound!â€�
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The Dead Skunk / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
The Dead Skunk / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Velaine Richardson, a cookbook author who cheerfully provides a recipe for a tasty Italian holiday pork dish called â€œaustriacoâ€� apparently without even knowing what the word means, let alone that the dish was invented to commemorate an incident of mass cannibalism.
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The Dead Skunk / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
The Dead Skunk / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: "Gaetan Jeannot," one of the few non-Historical Domain Characters, described as being "as undistinguished from his fellows as a cobblestone in the street."
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The Dead Skunk / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
The Dead Skunk / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: The Battle of Nancy. More than half a million men spread over a ten-mile-wide battlefield spend three weeks doing their level best to kill each other. In this world, the most reliable combat veterans are called â€œNancy boys.â€�
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The Dead Skunk / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Dead Skunk / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter of George IV and his "extremely estranged" wife, is getting a little tired of people sympathizing with her on account of her fatherâ€™s public misbehavior. (And considering that in our history she died in childbirth in 1817, she's actually doing pretty well.)
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The Dead Skunk / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Dead Skunk / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The "Great Scheme" of FouchÃ© and Talleyrand.
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The Dead Skunk / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Dead Skunk / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: President Berrien (a southern planter from the states-rights party) falls into this more than once during the War of 1837 as a result of him having "expanding slavery" as his primary goal in the war: First, with his forces already busy fighting Britain in two fronts, he organizes a filibuster expedition into Texas (which still belongs to Spain) and tries to use it to get Congress to declare war on Spain. He fails on convincing Congress, but he still tries to get his war anyway by ordering the two generals in the vicinity to take their armies to Texas. That fails too (one decides to obey Congress' orders and stay and the other rushes off to Texas with a couple of thousand cavalrymen, and gets himself killed in the process). Eventually, Berrien's involvement in the debacle is discovered and he's nearly impeached for that. Then, once the Senate has already ratified a rather favourable peace treaty, that gives Southwestern Ontario to the US, Berrien still wants to keep the war going to annex the southern territories he wants and has to be threatened with the resignation of his entire cabinet to sign the treaty.
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The Dead Skunk / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Dead Skunk / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Merrymeeting Bay. Wellington defeats the Massachusetts militia in fifteen minutes. 42 British and Canadians are killed or woundedâ€¦ and 1,128 Americans.
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The Dead Skunk / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The Dead Skunk / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Lampshaded in the case of Sir Thomas Henry Browne delivering his report to the Dâ€™Issy Commission.
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The Dead Skunk / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Dead Skunk / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Both John Coffee at Natchez and Wellington at Nancy plan their battles this way, thinking of more than one contingency in advance while being ready to make new changes to their plans at a momentâ€™s notice.
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The Dead Skunk / int_4503f7d4	type	Who Watches the Watchmen?
The Dead Skunk / int_4503f7d4	comment	Who Watches the Watchmen?: Two examples. The French government reins in Joseph FouchÃ© and his secret police â€” not because they love freedom, but because they don't trust him. During the Caroline affair, Lord Liverpool starts bringing troops into London to keep the â€œQueenitesâ€� under controlâ€¦ only to find out a lot of the soldiers and officers are Queenites themselves.
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The Dead Skunk / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dead Skunk / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: â€œBonaparte is dead.â€�
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The Dead Skunk / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
The Dead Skunk / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Officially, the Coalition armies in the war against Napoleon are commanded by Louis XVIII, who is nowhere near the battlefield. In fact, theyâ€™re commanded by three generals who meet once a day and who serve two different heads of state with opposing long-term objectives. This works about as well as youâ€™d expect.
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The Dead Skunk / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Dead Skunk / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: The Battle of Natchez begins just as the snow starts to fall.
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The Dead Skunk / int_55ab1be5	type	Royal Brat
The Dead Skunk / int_55ab1be5	comment	Royal Brat: George IV. Physically heâ€™s in his late fifties, but emotionally heâ€™s a badly behaved child.
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The Dead Skunk / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The Dead Skunk / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: William Henry Harrison gets one after losing an eye in battle.
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The Dead Skunk / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Dead Skunk / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The â€œSword of Nemesis,â€� a.k.a. Lord Byron.
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The Dead Skunk / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Dead Skunk / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Castlereagh undergoes this after the Caroline affair - It eventually culminates on him killing Lord Liverpool and himself.
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The Dead Skunk / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Dead Skunk / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: James Thomas Morriset, whose facial bones were shattered during a battle in Spain "and had healedâ€¦ wrong."
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The Dead Skunk / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
The Dead Skunk / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦: When Jackson finds himself about to lose New Orleans, he tries to burn it down to deny it to the British. This is what turns the Louisianans against the United States.
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The Dead Skunk / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
The Dead Skunk / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: The Prince Regent, later King George IV.
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The Dead Skunk / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
The Dead Skunk / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: Sir Thomas Henry Browne â€” or, as the French call him, â€œM. Browne, lâ€™espion anglais.â€� Luckily for him, nobody knows who heâ€™s spying for or why. Or so he thinks.
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The Dead Skunk / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Dead Skunk / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Skunk: The timeline begins (and gets its name) when the British army landing in the bayou, commanded by Major General John Keane, is temporarily held up by an irate skunk. An owl swoops down on the skunk out of nowhere and kills it before it can spray. This gives Keane ideasâ€¦
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The Dead Skunk / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Dead Skunk / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Subverted in the case of Talleyrand. Although he appears to have a bad case of it, everything he does is intended to strengthen France â€” especially turning the Coalition members against each other.
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The Dead Skunk / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Dead Skunk / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: â€œItâ€� being the Treaty of Ghent.
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The Dead Skunk / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Dead Skunk / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The most unbelievable details in The Dead Skunk are usually the ones taken from the history we know. A British officer failing to withdraw from enemy territory after the signing of a peace treaty? Well, there was Castine, Maine. A U.S. state governor in time of war preparing to make a separate peace with the enemy and cede U.S. territory? This really happened. In our history. And he wasnâ€™t punished. James Thomas Morriset was a real person who suffered that injury and lived. The Prince Regent really did write a letter to a friend in which he complained about finding "marks of filth in both the fore and hind part" of his wife on their wedding night. Lampshaded in a footnote to a passage describing de Francia's strange regime in Paraguay.
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The Dead Skunk / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
The Dead Skunk / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: A low-tech example. During one battle, Wellington has 5,000 Congreve rockets launched at oncoming cavalry in the space of three seconds (possibly to get rid of them quickly, as they werenâ€™t his favorite weapon).
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The Dead Skunk / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
The Dead Skunk / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: BlÃ¼cher at the Battle of Velaine.
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The Dead Skunk / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
The Dead Skunk / int_a15af1f3	comment	After the horrors of famine and occupation, pre-1850 Italian art tends to fall into one of two styles - either Neo-Pastoralism or trucescero (literally "grim-dark").
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The Dead Skunk / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Dead Skunk / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Princess Caroline of Brunswick (later Queen Caroline) treats her servants well, which makes her household staff harder to infiltrate. But not impossible.
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The Dead Skunk / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
The Dead Skunk / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: The fÃ©dÃ©rÃ©s in France. Played with in that most of them are not members of the French ruling party, the Liberals, but a (usually) allied party, the Jacobins.
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The Dead Skunk / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
The Dead Skunk / int_a8af3e53	comment	The French government reins in Joseph FouchÃ© and his secret police â€” not because they love freedom, but because they don't trust him.
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The Dead Skunk / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Dead Skunk / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: John Quincy Adams gives one at Gadsbyâ€™s Tavern that secures his nomination for the presidency.
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The Dead Skunk / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
The Dead Skunk / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: "The Sword of Nemesis", a mysterious but audacious Greek leader fighting against the Ottoman Empire.
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The Dead Skunk / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Dead Skunk / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Governor George Arthur of New South Wales eventually becomes " the sole human in history whose death has been attributed to the platypus" as starvation, dehydration, and overall stress and lack of energy meant that he was unable to withstand two platypus stings and died of heart failure.
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The Dead Skunk / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
The Dead Skunk / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: How the Americans interpret Lord Liverpool's actions after the capture of New Orleans.
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The Dead Skunk / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Dead Skunk / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: How Henry Brougham plans to resolve the Caroline affair. Either King George gives up trying to get a divorce, or he is forced to abdicate in favor of his daughter, or a civil war begins that Brougham is pretty sure his side will win.
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The Dead Skunk / int_c4842ab1	type	Appropriated Appellation
The Dead Skunk / int_c4842ab1	comment	Appropriated Appellation: After the American defeat by Britain, the nationalist wing of the Democratic-Republicans take to wearing cockades of a shade of purple made by mixing the colors of the American flag in the proportions found in it. One of their political opponents claims the cockade looks like a dead rose, and the nickname catches on even among the Democratic-Republicans.
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The Dead Skunk / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dead Skunk / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are several, some louder than others. Napoleon jokingly says his enemies call him a "tin-pot dictator with delusions of godhood." A subtle one in a passage about Choctaw chief Pushmataha, "who had long since learned that white menâ€™s promises were worth their weight in goldâ€� (a Running Gag in many of Harry Turtledove's works). At one point Margaret Brougham, nÃ©e Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, asks, "This man Iâ€™ve gone and married â€” does he really plan all these things in advance? Or does he just sit and wait for his enemies to trip over their own feet, then leap up and shout â€˜Exactly as planned!â€™" Speaking of Henry Brougham, he makes use of Francis Urquhart's famous dodge. After the horrors of famine and occupation, pre-1850 Italian art tends to fall into one of two styles - either Neo-Pastoralism or trucescero (literally "grim-dark").
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The Dead Skunk / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Dead Skunk / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Col. Morriset, the carbonari are here to see you. They've brought some rope. And a mirror.
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The Dead Skunk / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Dead Skunk / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The King, the Queen, the Tories, the Radicals and the French turn the Caroline affair into one of these.
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The Dead Skunk / int_dee56696	type	Innocuously Important Episode
The Dead Skunk / int_dee56696	comment	Innocuously Important Episode: Sir Thomas Henry Browneâ€™s arrival in Paris, and his meeting with Jeannot and St.-Leger, turns out to be the beginning of the Caroline Affair/â€�Great Schemeâ€� story arc.
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The Dead Skunk / int_df60d405	type	Culture Chop Suey
The Dead Skunk / int_df60d405	comment	Culture Chop Suey: Justified in the case of British Florida, home to many ethnic groups, including (but not limited to) Creeks, Seminoles, Hindus, Bengalis, Javanese, Balinese, Cantonese, Jews, Haitians, ProvenÃ§ales and escaped slaves.
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The Dead Skunk / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Dead Skunk / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the Duke of Wellington, loyal servant of the Crown, proposes a plan to force George IV to vacate the throne, you know heâ€™s desperate for a way to prevent civil war.
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The Dead Skunk / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Dead Skunk / int_e9e35e8f	comment	A subtle one in a passage about Choctaw chief Pushmataha, "who had long since learned that white menâ€™s promises were worth their weight in goldâ€� (a Running Gag in many of Harry Turtledove's works).
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The Dead Skunk / int_eb2eb10f	type	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
The Dead Skunk / int_eb2eb10f	comment	Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Thanks to the slightly different military fortunes of the French, Antwerp, Brussels and Mainz are increasingly refered to as Anvers, Bruxelles and Mayence.
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The Dead Skunk / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Dead Skunk / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: Ferdinand VII of Spain and George IV of the United Kingdom come about as close to this as a king can realistically get. Even their political allies see them as The Millstone and hold them in contempt.
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The Dead Skunk / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Dead Skunk / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Caleb Strongâ€¦ although his actions only make things worse.
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The Dead Skunk / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
The Dead Skunk / int_f332d990	comment	The Prince Regent really did write a letter to a friend in which he complained about finding "marks of filth in both the fore and hind part" of his wife on their wedding night.
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The Dead Skunk / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Dead Skunk / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: In-universe - after the use of Yeomanry regiments to suppress Queenist and radical assemblies (starting with a considerably less bloody version of the Peterloo Massacre), the meaning of the term "yeoman" evolved from "an independent farmer" to something far more negative.
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The Dead Skunk / int_fe8a1029	type	Feed the Mole
The Dead Skunk / int_fe8a1029	comment	Feed the Mole: Played for laughs. HonorÃ© de Balzac and friends have a lot of fun doing this to Browne (see below). As an AH.com In-Joke, they pretend to be sailors on board the "Lion de la Mer." Talleyrand also does this, with much more serious intent.
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