French Twist

If we take from the words Revolution Francaise the word veto, known as the first prerogative of Louis XIV, the remaining letters will form ‘Un Corse la finira’–A Corsican shall end it, and this may be regarded as an extraordinary coincidence, if nothing more.

— William T. Dobson, Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities, 1882

See Able Was I.