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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IV

Note 107 — Chapter LVI

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"The Empress of Austria made herself remarked, by her aversion, which she vainly endeavoured to disguise; it escaped from her by an involuntary impulse, which Napoleon instantly detected, and subdued by a smile: but she employed her spirit and attraction in gently winning hearts to her opinion, in order to sow them afterwards with the seeds of hate."—Ségur, tom. i., p. 92.

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