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TIL that when Napoleon returned to France, the King sent troops to stop and kill him. He stepped out in front of them & said “if there is one among you who wants to kill his general, his Emperor, here I am.” The royalists cheered wildly, “Long live the Emperor.” They joined his cause.

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