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Napoleon the Little

BOOK II
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Louis Bonaparte subscribes, but does not pay.

As for the budget, the budget controlled by the blind men in the Council of State, and voted by the dumb men in the Corps Legislatif, there is an abyss beneath it.

There was no possible or efficacious budget but a great reduction in the army: two hundred thousand soldiers left at home, two hundred millions saved.

Just try to touch the army! the soldier, who would regain his freedom, would applaud, but what would the officer say?
And in reality, it is not the soldier but the officer who is caressed.

Then Paris and Lyons must be guarded, and all the other cities; and afterwards, when we are Emperor, a little European war must be got up.


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