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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
lately-restored Louis XVIII., this sage functi¬ 
onary ordered the poor man to he 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 ; 
fold tricoloris denoted as evidently the three- 
coloured cockade; et ipsi par viola: was a mani¬ 
fest allusion to /« pere la violette, as Bonaparte 
was then called, because his partizans 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. 
