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TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote a romance novel called Clisson et Eugénie in 1795. It is about a french revolutionary soldier called Clisson who falls in love with a woman at a public bath named Eugénie. After Clisson returns to war Eugénie falls for another man and he commits suicide.

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