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TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated "I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country" the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the 'Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God'

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