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Napoleon1769–1821

I did not usurp the crown. I picked it up from the gutter; the people placed it on my head. I was king of the people as the Bourbons are kings of the nobles.

Napoleon on power

3 September 1816. Quoted in Napoleon at St Helena, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, pg 375.

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