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- Title: Widger's Quotations from Project Gutenberg Edition of Memoirs of Napoleon
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Historical,Books,Romance,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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I almost fancy I am dreaming when I look back on the miraculous incapacity of the persons who were then at the head of our Government. The emigrants, who, as it has been truly said, had neither learned nor forgotten anything, came back with all the absurd pretensions of Coblentz. Their silly vanity reminded one of a character in one of Voltaire's novels who is continually saying', Un homme comme moi!' These people were so engrossed with their pretended merit that they were blind to everything else. They not only disregarded the wishes and the wants of France; which in overthrowing the Empire hoped to regain liberty, but they disregarded every warning they had received. M. de Talleyrand, accompanied by the members of the Provisional Government, several Marshals and general officers, and the municipal body, headed by the prefect of the Seine, went in procession beyond the barrier to receive Monsieur. M. de Talleyrand, in the name of the Provisional Government, addressed the Prince, who in reply made that observation which has been so often repeated', Nothing is changed in France: there is only one Frenchman more'.
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