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Les Suites d'une Insurrection, 1849. - Malheureux, voilà donc où t'ont conduit tes idées anarchistes .... tu as crié: à bas la grammaire et les pions!...... je maudis le jour où je te l'ai donné! (Consequences of an Insurrection. Wretched child! Now you see the result of your anarchistic ideas! You have yelled: Down with grammar and teachers!.... I regret the day I taught you these concepts). It was common practice in France to punish students who were perceived to be lazy by forcing them to wear a dunce cap and threatening that they would grow donkey ears if they did not work harder.