“They sound like the French court before the revolution.”
Or 18 Brumaire before Napoleon sent the army in to bust up the Directory.
I bet Hitler was thinking it was Brumaire in Germany.
Yeah, Napoleon did station troops around Paris to “protect” the Directory, didn’t he?
I suppose we should start calling the Senate and the House the Council of Ancients and the 500 or whatever the French called the lower house.