But in the field of high policy, as in the moral events that make or mar a nation's life, his influence told heavily against the welfare of France; and he must have carried into exile the consciousness that his complex nature and ill-matched strivings had but served to bring his dynasty and his country to an unexampled overthrow.
* * * * * It may be well to notice here an event of world-wide importance, which came as a sequel to the military collapse of France.

Italians had always looked to the day when Rome would be the national capital.

The great Napoleon during his time of exile at St.Helena had uttered the prophetic words: "Italy isolated between her natural limits is destined to form a great and powerful nation.

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