- Genius Bonus: The unnamed King and Queen of France are made to look like Louis Philippe I and Maria Amalia, who were the King and Queen of France at the time the story was written. Later, the man causing a disturbance in the street is given dialogue which is mostly unintelligible, but enough of it can be heard to establish him as a fanatical Bonapartist. Neither of these details were present in the original short story (which never even establishes for sure that it was the Queen who was blackmailed in the first place), but were evidently added for the benefit of Wishbone fans who are familiar with 19th century French politics.
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