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“There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together.”

“I believe in the forces of the spirit, and I won't leave you.”

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“A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.”

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Politics1950

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