Political caricatures during the 1830s and 1840s in France often depicted Louis-Philippe with a pear-shaped head in part because the French word for pear had the slang meaning of
A) autocratic.
B) cruel.
C) lascivious.
D) corrupt.
E) simpleton or fool.
E
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In the year prior to its crash, the stock market had been soaring upward.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)