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Tag Archives: Louis Auzoux
1875: An Absolute Democracy
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Bees, Books, Democracy, France, Insects, John Burroughs, Louis Auzoux, Poltical Science, Sculpture, USA
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