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His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon]

Note 20 — HIS EXCELLENCY (continued 8)

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly translation

When Napoleon III. was a lad his mother, Queen Hortense, as her letters show, was wont to call him 'mon doux entêté,' virtually 'my gentle but stubborn boy.'—Ed.

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