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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
lately-restored Louis XVIII., this sage function¬ 
ary ordered the poor man to be apprehended. 
The mayor construed the verses above-quoted 
in the following manner :—Flos Jovis, the flower 
of Jupiter, was of course the flower of Napoleon; 
folii tricoloris denoted as evidently the three- 
coloured cockade; et ipsi par violce was a mani¬ 
fest allusion to la pere la violelte, as Bonaparte 
was then called, because his partisans had 
adopted this flower as a sign of their attach¬ 
ment, and carried it in their button-holes or in 
their bosoms. Astonished and confounded as 
the poor schoolmaster at first was at his arrest, 
he could not forbear smiling at this comic inter¬ 
pretation of the above passage by his worship, 
the mayor. 
