"Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate."
"The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad."
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Source: The Mistresses : Domestic Scandals of the 19th-Century Monarchs. Book by Betty Kelen, 1993.
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