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“On dit que l’un fut sauvé”

Posted on January 27, 2017 by

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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Bang bang, that awful sound

Posted on January 17, 2017 by

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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