Hiiiii now that I'm back home I am noodling around with this :D I have been spending entirely too much time trying to figure out digital audio -- I still haven't really figured out any of the hard parts that would make it sound decent, but at this point I have a reasonable working solution so that I can start practicing. Turns out, er, singing without lots of errors is harder than I thought! I now have a copy that's scribbled all over with things like "go from A to G here" and "PRACTICE THIS" :)

I've been adjusting wording slightly as I go :) but a couple of questions I had for the salon mind:

Ice Palace, Force Vive, Émilie du Chatelet

Should this internally rhyme, or is it OK that it doesn't?

Christian Wolff, Pöllnitz, Franklin prints and flies kits

So, this should be "kites," not kits, which kind of destroys the rhyme here; is there a better way to do this?

Slaves get dumped into the sea

OK, sorry, what does this refer to? (From my American-centric viewpoint, I keep wanting it to say "Tea gets dumped into the sea"...)

Also, I just want to reiterate that the Guillotine ending the song is just genius :D