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A l'instar de Pantin, 1869. (Like Pantin.) A German soldier squeezes the province of Baden. At his feet lie the bodies of Saxony, Hanover, and Hesse. The French word pantin means a puppet or marionette. The porte de Pantin is one of the gates of Paris. From Actualités (News of the day), published in Le Charivari, October 12, 1869.