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<p>[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 4741525, member: 24091"]Once read a biography of Napoleon III. He was pretty much a degenerate. For anyone with the misfortune of climbing the government bureaucracy and being appointed as a minister or other close confidant of the "Emperor" --there was the certainty that their wife would be expected to sleep with Napoleon III even though it was widely known that he had syphilis. Had to be enough to make many question the wisdom of government service!! That all aside, his coins are still cool, and it has less to do with him than the very talented engravers and die sinkers at the Paris mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 4741525, member: 24091"]Once read a biography of Napoleon III. He was pretty much a degenerate. For anyone with the misfortune of climbing the government bureaucracy and being appointed as a minister or other close confidant of the "Emperor" --there was the certainty that their wife would be expected to sleep with Napoleon III even though it was widely known that he had syphilis. Had to be enough to make many question the wisdom of government service!! That all aside, his coins are still cool, and it has less to do with him than the very talented engravers and die sinkers at the Paris mint.[/QUOTE]
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