Au Revoir Ford Mustang Sportsroof Thomas Powys

Thomas Powys

showing the ruins after the fire of 23 July

Lord Denman and Lushington

View of the City of London across the River Thames from Southwark with a key to buildings and points on the river

Au Revoir Ford Mustang Sportsroof Thomas PowysAu Revoir, 1873. Germany, carrying a bag stuffed with cash, says farewell to France. A defiant France insists it is not farewell, just au revoir. Following France's disastrous war against Prussia, the newly unified Germany settled on the terms of a huge war indemnity being paid by France. The money was in fact raised very quickly and, in September 1873, a year and a half before the deadline agreed, the final German troops left France. From Punch, or