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Part One: Napoleon III: The Worst Bonaparte

Behind the Bastards

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I Just Want to Serve

Lewis Napoleon wrote to his father, Lewis Bonaparte, about joining the Russian army. He said he was interested in military glory but that fighting Muslim barbarians wasn't an honorable task. His father told him: "All war apart from that of legitimate self-defense of one's home and nation is nothing but the act of a barbarian"

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