Crossword-Solution: POIRE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Every one who was at Paris a few years since must recollect the famous “poire” which was chalked upon all the walls of the city, and which bore so ludicrous a resemblance to Louis Philippe.

Philipon, for defence, produced a sheet of paper, and drew a poire, a real large Burgundy pear: in the lower parts round and capacious, narrower near the stalk, and crowned with two or three careless leaves.

Almost the first figure that these audacious caricaturists dared to depict was a political one: in Macaire’s red breeches and tattered coat appeared no less a personage than the King himself—the old Poire—in a country of humbugs and swindlers the facile princeps; fit to govern, as he is deeper than all the rogues in his dominions.

She repeated one of her vocabularies, and went on with--“J’ai le livre.” “As-tu le pain?” “L’enfant a une poire.” He listened with great attention, and replied slowly.

Profuse in his gratitude, he wrote from his hotel in Vienna --the Hotel de la Poire, situated in the Langstrasse--that, in the society of the cherished one, he had regained his imagination and verve.