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Part Two: Napoleon III: The Worst Bonaparte

Behind the Bastards

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'Fuck With France'

In 1839, while he's in London, the British empire takes possession of Hong Kong and the East India Company occupies Aden. So as his plans for imperial glory solidify, so too does his political understanding of what has gone wrong in his home country. France again, in this period is basically medieval in a lot of respects. Their economy is ancient. It is decrepit. They're not talking about going to a sandals. Everything in France is still done by like horses driving around wagons. Yeah. Now I'm just doing all accents. I'm losing my money. So you are my binocular. Gives them all trample documents,. mostly because again, they figure

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