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Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire
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I'm gonna quote now from Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire a book by J.M Thompson and this is the biography that I did not like as much quote she was not in love with Lewis and he did not want to marry.
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Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire by J. M. Thompson is a historical biography detailing the life and reign of Napoleon III. Robert Evans cited this text across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards while delivering a biographical profile of the French leader, whom he characterized rather harshly. During the discussions, Evans turned to Thompson's work to provide specific historical details and direct quotes regarding the Bonaparte family dynamics. Specifically, Evans brought up Thompson's biography to read a passage concerning the notoriously unhappy marriage of Hortense and Lewis Bonaparte, noting that Hortense was not in love with Lewis and that Lewis did not wish to marry her. Evans used this textual evidence to paint a vivid picture of domestic discord within the family. Additionally, Evans relied on Thompson's research to illustrate the early life of the subject, citing the biographer to describe how the young Lewis Napoleon had only a faint and distant memory of his famous uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte, recalling him merely as a sleek, tubby, and talkative little man who once alarmingly lifted him up by his head. Through these citations, Thompson's biography served as a primary source for the podcast's historical narrative.
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Robert Evans I'm gonna quote now from Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire a book by J.M Thompson and this is the biogra… 3
“I'm gonna quote now from Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire a book by J.M Thompson and this is the biography that I did not like as much quote she was not in love with Lewis and he did not want to marry”
“I'm going to quote now from Lewis Napoleon and the Second Empire, a book by JM Thompson. And this is the biography that I did not like as much. Quote, she was not in love with Lewis and he did not want to marry”
“Biographer JM Thompson writes, quote, Lewis Napoleon would be too young to remember more perhaps than the impression of a sleek, tubby, talkative little man who took him on his knee, lifting him alarmingly by his head”