"It is essential that our two governments should be on better terms. When we are on good terms I have no anxiety about the West of Europe; what others think is really of small importance. ... You see, we have a sick man on our hands, a very sick man; it would be a great misfortune if he should slip out of them some day before all necessary arrangements are made."
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Remarks to the ambassador of Queen Victoria, Sir Hamilton Seymour, at a soiree given at the palace of the Grande Duchesse Hélène (9 January 1853), quoted in Imbert de Saint-Amand, Napoleon III and His Court (1898), p. 88. The "sick man" was the Ottoman Empire
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Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I (6 July 1796 – 2 March 1855) reigned as Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 1825 until 1855. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas inherited his brother's throne despite the failed Decembrist revolt against him. He is mainly remembered in history as a reactionary whose controversial reign was marked by geographical expansion, economic growth and massive industrialisation on the one hand, and centralisa
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