May 1848

The most important word the Age has given to the vocabulary is Blouse." It has not yet got into the Dictionary, and even in America for a year or two it has been of doubtful sound, whether English " blouse," or French " blouse." But, at last, the French Revolution has decided for- ever its euphony. It is not that it was new for the workman to have ideas and speak in clubs, but new in its proportions to find not five hun- dred but two hundred thousand thinkers and orators in blouse. Guizot thought they were but a handful.