Note 24 — Chapter XVI · THE ILLNESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
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Bismarck would have let the French keep Metz for a milliard more of war-indemnity. Then with this money he would have built a fortress to mask it somewhere about Falkenberg, or towards Saarbrücken. “I do not like,” he said one day at dinner during the peace negotiations, “so many Frenchmen being in our house against their will.”—Lowe’s Life of Bismarck, Vol. I., p. 631.