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Tag Archives: Napoleon III
“On dit que l’un fut sauvé”
My last folksy yarn about the mad as hell Italians who wanted to scatter bits of Mr and Mrs Napoleon III across Paris that winter evening in 1858 left us in a bad place. We learnt that two of the … Continue reading
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Tagged carlo de rudio, Charles de Rudio, Charles Derudio, Napoleon III, Orsini Plot
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Bang bang, that awful sound
In the early 1850s, in what is now Italy, the soon-to-be-country’s revolutionary nationalists hated in equal measure the Austrians for occupying much of the north and the Pope who was sustained by the Austrians, for retaining his distinctly worldly hold … Continue reading
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Tagged assassination, count Orsini, Italian unification, January 14 1858, Napoleon III
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