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Louis Napoleon was an incomprehensible person. Of those with whom he came in personal contact, only a very few, if any, ever really knew him. One associate was to remark, “I knew Louis Napoleon, if not intimately, at least very well, for nearly a quarter of a century, and I felt myself as little competent to give an opinion on him on the last as on the first day of our acquaintance.”1
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Gooch, B.D. (1959). Not Enough Talent. In: The New Bonapartist Generals in the Crimean War. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1001-1_2
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