Note 48 — Chapter XI
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"'The thing might be feasible,' said an elector, 'if your general's name was Geneviève de Brabant, or that of one of the four sons of Aymon.[48] But his name is simply Cavaignac—Cavaignac, and that's all. I prefer Napoléon; at any rate, there is a ring about that name.' And I am afraid that eleven-twelfths of the electors are of the same opinion."