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Napoleon the Little

BOOK II
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Where?
At the Tuileries, in April, 1804.
"Without title or authority, and in violation of every principle, it has surrendered the country and consummated its ruin.

It has been the plaything of eminent intriguers; I know of no body which ought to appear in history with greater ignominy than the Senate." Who said this?
The Emperor.

Where?
At St.Helena.
There is actually then a senate in the "Constitution of January 14." But, candidly speaking, this is a mistake; for now that public hygiene has made some progress, we are accustomed to see the public highway better kept.

After the Senate of the Empire, we thought that no more senates would be mixed up with Constitutions.
III THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND THE CORPS LEGISLATIF There is also a Council of State and a Corps Legislatif: the former joyous, well paid, plump, rosy, fat, and fresh, with a sharp eye, a red ear, a voluble tongue, a sword by its side, a belly, and embroidered in gold; the Corps Legislatif, pale, meagre, sad, and embroidered in silver.

The Council of State comes and goes, enters and exits, returns, rules, disposes, decides, settles, and decrees, and sees Louis Napoleon face to face.


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