Statement  In No 16 of your paper Mr M Hess  in Paris casts suspicion on the French members, who are entirely unknown to him, of the Central Council in London of the International Working Men s Association by writing: In an earlier issue, in a chat about the paper L'Association,  this same Mr M Hess made a similar insinuation against the Parisian friends of the London Council. We declare that his insinuations are absurd slanders. By the way, we are glad that this incident has confirmed our conviction that the Paris proletariat continues to be irreconcilably opposed to Bonapartism, in both its forms, the form of the Tuileries  and the form of the Palais Royal, and that it never contemplated selling its historical honour (or shall we say its historical birth-right as the protagonist of the revolution instead of its historical honour'?) for a mess of pottage. We recommend to the German workers that they follow this example.
Marx-Engels Correspondence 1865