Street singers sang patriotic parodies, eulogising Uncle Sam and his nephews, and garnered harvests of sous for their efforts.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons
Seeing the tears fall from his eyes, while he was thus eulogising her whose memory I shall ever venerate, I almost forgave him the mischief of his imprudence, which led to her untimely end.
"The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete"
Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
There existed in Ile-de-France a Societe d'Emulation, formed to promote the study of literary and philosophical subjects, whose members, learning what manner of man Flinders was, addressed a memorial to the Institute of France relating what had happened to him, and eulogising his courage, his high character, his innocence, and the worth of his services.
"The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders"
Ernest Scott