At the end of Chapter VIII I expressed the opinion that 
E. About’s pamphlet La Prusse en 1860, or as it was originally 
called, Napoléon III et la Prusse, was a retranslation into French of 
an excerpt of Da-Da Vogt’s German compilation of the Dentu 
pamphlets.* The only objection to this view was the total ignorance 

of the German language on the part of that unsuccessful comedy 
writer, E. About. But was it out of the question for the compere 
Guillery to have discovered a commere allemande* somewhere or 
other in Paris? Who this commére was remained a matter of 
conjecture. La Prusse en 1860 was known to have been published 
as a vademecum for Louis Bonaparte’s trip to Baden-Baden”; it 
was designed to foreshadow his request to the Prince Regent and 
to make it clear to Prussia that in the December 2 Empire Prussia 
possessed, in the concluding words of the pamphlet, an “allié trés 
utile qui est peut-étre appelé a lui” (Prussia) “rendre de grands 
services, pourvu qu’elle s’y préte un peu’. E. About had already 
revealed in French (see Chapter IX, “Agency’‘) in L’Opinion 
Nationale as early as the spring of 1860 that “pourvu qu'elle s’y préte 
un peu” translated into German means: “on the condition that 
Prussia sells the Rhine Province to France”. In view of these 
aggravating circumstances I could not name anyone as the 
German prompter of E. About, the unsuccessful comedy writer 
and Dentu pamphletist, simply on the basis of a conjecture. But I 
am now justified in declaring that the German commeére of the 
compere Guillery is none other than Vogt’s gentle Kunigunde— Herr 
Ludwig Simon of Trier. This was hardly suspected by the German 
refugee in London‘ who penned the well-known answer to About’s 
pamphlet.‘ 

Karl Marx