Show NO NEED FOR EFFUSION witty answer of french prefect to revolutionaries during the reign of emperor na III he and the empress visited ile normandy and had arranged to spend a couple of days at devreux M jan vier de la monte who was the pre feet learned that the revolutionaries intended to hiss the sovereigns as they passed and so he summoned the leaders of the movement and told them that he knew of their plot it if you carry out your plan said he to them you will get six months in prison if you do not your friends will accuse you of cowardice and trea son As a way out of the difficulty I 1 propose to lock you up at once until the emperor has gone the conspire acors accepted the terms offered them after the emperor and empress had gone the prefect went in person to release his prisoners who had had such a pleasant time that they greeted him with cries of long live the prefect to which M janvier de la monte who was a man of wit replied my friends do not overdo it |