Quotation by Napoleon Bonaparte III

The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873), French emperor. Attributed conversational remark, late 1850s.

Of the leading figures in the Second Empire.
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