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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827)

Note 1 — SIR WALTER SCOTT'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

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It did not escape the minute observers of this scene, that he still held in his hand the bag which had contained the fatal pistol, and which was inscribed with the words, Au grand monarque, alluding to the sign, doubtless, of the gunsmith who sold the weapon, but singularly applicable to the high pretensions of the purchaser.

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