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Monsieur de Necker, an evil-minded Genovese, set the thing a-going.
Foreigners have always tried to injure France.
The maximum did great harm to the Revolution. Legally Louis XVI.
should never have been condemned; a jury would have acquitted him.
Why did Charles X.fall? Napoleon was a great man, and the facts that prove his genius are anecdotal: he took five pinches of snuff a minute out of a pocket lined with leather made in his waistcoat. He looked into all his tradesmen's accounts; he went to Saint-Denis to judge for himself the prices of things.
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