“Be proud, Frenchmen! Lift high your heads, Frenchmen! You are no longer anything, and this man is everything! He holds in his hand your intelligence, as a child holds a bird. Any day he pleases, he can strangle the genius of France.”

—  Victor Hugo

Napoleon the Little (1852), Book V, IX
Napoleon the Little (1852)

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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

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