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• This is: when Victor Hugo visited the site of Waterloo in 1861, a local woman pointed out some of the sites to him: "That [crater] was made by a French cannon-ball. And that hole up there in the door, that was made by a bullet from a biscayen, a gun firing canister-shot. It didn't go right through."

— C'est un boulet français qui a fait ça, lui dit-elle. Et elle ajouta:

— Ce que vous voyez là, plus haut, dans la porte, près d'un clou, c'est le trou d'un gros biscayen. Le biscayen n'a pas traversé le bois.

• This is: in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud recounts a joke about Wellington that von Falke heard at a waxworks in Ireland: "Von Falke brought home a particularly good example of representation by the opposite from a journey to Ireland ... The scene was a wax-work show ... A guide was conducting a company of old and young visitors from figure to figure and commenting on them: ‘This is the Duke of Wellington and his horse,’ he explained. Whereupon a young lady asked: ‘Which is the Duke of Wellington and which is the horse?’ ‘Just as you like, my pretty child,’ was the reply. ‘You pays your money and you takes your choice.’"