Pater Filucius ( Father Filucius ) is the only illustrated satire of this period suggested by the publisher . Also aimed at anti @-@ Catholic taste and buyers , it criticize the Jesuit Order . Kraus felt it was the weakest of all three anti @-@ clerical works . Some satires refer to contemporary events , such as Monsieur Jacques à Paris during the Siege of 1870 ( Monsieur Jacques à Paris während der Belagerung von 1870 ) . Busch biographer Manuela Diers declare the story " tasteless work , drawing on anti @-@ French emotions and mocking the misery of French people in Paris , which is occupied by Prussian troops " . It depict an increasingly desperate French citizen who at first eat a mouse during the German siege , then amputate his dog 's tail to cook it , and finally invent an explosion pill which kill his dog and two fellow citizens . Weissweiler believe that Busch wrote with irony . In Eginhard and Emma ( 1864 ) , a fictional family story that take place in the Charlemagne era , he criticize the Holy Roman Empire and call for a German empire in its place ; in The Birthday or the Particularists ( Der Geburtstag oder die Partikularisten ) he satirize the anti @-@ Prussian sentiments of his Hanover countrymen .