| There are much less salubrious places to be exiled. I imagined a barren rock for Napolean's use, but it's a nice island off the west coast of Tuscany, Italy. Dangerously close to France, one would think. Deep down, people tend to love authoritarian figures, guess they wanted to keep him handy if they missed him too much. He returned to France after only nine months on Elba.
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When the world was better. |