Préfecture Prose and Cons

Mogette La 2CV Coquette was working at La Préfecture today.

Her propriétaire took this picture while her two cylinders ticked over on the pock-marked pavement; a memory of impromptu tyre fires, from générations of manifestations.

Embarrassingly, he'd left her in reverse gear.

Her centrifugal clutch engaged

And then-

Mogette crept, sans pilote, sans gêne,

Backwards, on a slight oblique

Towards the Préfet's Peugeot bleu métallique...

The chauffeur waved

And tipped his képi hat.

Only a Deuche can do a trick like that.

(Now click on the pic for a free subtitled French lesson, and a classic 2CV crash test.)

[Is that supposed

To be prose?

Leave the doggerel

To me, you mongerel

M.D'O]