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Part Two: Napoleon III: The Worst Bonaparte

Behind the Bastards

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The Count Giuseppe Orsey's Coup Attempt Squad

"This is the funniest coup failure I have ever heard of," he says. "It's got the yeah, it's the proto fascism in that it's like the aesthetics of the the past in history." The plot involves 56 men on a steamboat who don't know what they're doing entirely. They've been following Louis Napoleon but only keep a couple of people in the loop to the plan.

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