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Napoleon the Little

BOOK II
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When it is not _Fracasse_ it is _Basile_.
Sometimes it is both together.

In this manner he succeeded wonderfully in duping at the same time Montalembert, who does not believe in France, and Saint-Arnaud who does not believe in God.
Does the Dictator smell of incense?
Does he smell of tobacco?
Smell and see.

He smells of both tobacco and incense.

Oh, France! what a government is this! The spurs pass by beneath the cassock.

The _coup d'etat_ goes to mass, thrashes the civilians, reads its breviary, embraces Catin, tells its beads, empties the wine pots, and takes the sacrament.


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