Friday Funnies: "When Life Reeked With Joy" Part Three

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From "When Life Reeked With Joy"

   After the refirmation were wars both foreign and infernal.  If  the
Spanish  could  gain  the  Netherlands  they  would  have  a  stronghold
throughout northern Europe which would include their posetions in Italy,
Burgangy,  central Europe and India thus serrounding France.  The German
Emporer's lower passage was blocked by the French for years and years.
  Louise XIV became King of the Sun.  He gave  the  people  food  and
artillery.   If  he  didn't like someone, he sent them to the gallows to
row for the rest of their lives.  Vauban was the royal minister of flir-
tation.   In Russia the 17th century was known as the time of the bound-
ing of the serfs.  Russian nobles wore clothes only to humour Peter  the
Great.   Peter  filled his government with accidental people and built a
new capital near the European boarder.  Orthodox priests became  govern-
ment antennae.
  The enlightenment was a reasonable  time.   Voltare  wrote  a  book
called "Candy" that got him into trouble with Frederick the Great.  Phi-
losophers were unknown as yet, and the  fundamental  stake  was  one  of
religious  toleration slightly confused with defeatism.  France was in a
very serious state.  Taxation was a great drain  on  the  state  budget.
The  French revolution was accomplished before it happened.  The revolu-
tion evolved through republican and tolarian phases until it  catapulted
into  Napoleon.   Napoleon  was  ill  with bladder problems and was very
tense and unrestrained.