Louis Napoleon says

In Pondy a statue of Louis Napoleon

Who lets face it

History hasn’t remembered too kindly

1870 and all that

[See le debacle by zola]

But there is that quote of his

After his earlier victory over the Austrians

I’ve had enough of war, there’s too much luck in it

And that after a victory

I’ve had enough of war, there’s too much luck in it

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If only he’d learnt his own marvellous lesson

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