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Ferdinand Flocon, 1849. Au premier aspect vous avez peut-être pris ce personnage pour un prince Russe, légèrement Cosaque, cela ne peut manquer de l'avoir profondément affligé en sa qualité de républicain de la veille. Ferdinand Flocon a été pendant quelques semaines ministre de l'agriculture, et un de ses premiers actes a été de se défricher le menton, naguère orné d'une barbe complète. Il avait eu encore d'autre intentions excellentes, mais il n'a pas eu le temps de les réaliser. (At first glance you probably took this character for a Russian prince, perhaps with a touch of Cossack about him; this could not have failed to deeply distress him, given his lifelong republicanism. Ferdinand Flocon served for a few weeks as Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, which had once been adorned with a full beard. He had other excellent intentions as well, but he did not have time to carry them out.)