"She had failed to judge her public. Louise had won the gratitude and affection of Belgium by her quiet nobility her gentle charity; and her personal misfortunes had only increased the people's devotion."
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Early Belgian colonial Efforts: The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I, Page 179 Richardson, 182
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