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The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

CHAPTER XVII
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You must bribe them with glory, distinctions, rewards.

To come to the point: during ten years there has been a talk of institutions.

Where are they?
All has been overturned: our business is to build up.

There is a government with certain powers: as to all the rest of the nation what is it but grains of sand?
Before the Republic can be definitely established, we must, as a foundation, cast some blocks of granite on the soil of France.

In fine, it is agreed that we have need of some kind of institutions.


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