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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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his fantasies about Italy and the Mediterranean, equally exaggerated ("Correspondence," XXX., 548), and an admirable improvisation on Spain and the colonies at Bayonne .-- De Pradt.
"Memoires sur les revolutions d'Espagne," p.130: "Therefore Napoleon talked, or rather poetised; he Ossianized for a long time...

like a man full of a sentiment which oppressed him, in an animated, picturesque style, and with the impetuosity, imagery, and originality which were familiar to him,...

on the vast throne of Mexico and Peru, on the greatness of the sovereigns who should possess them..

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