"I will bring the nobles of this Court down so low that they shall be obliged to beg their bread."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Je rendrai cette noblesse de cour si petite, qu'elle sera obligée de mendier son pain. — Mémoires de madame de Rémusat, Volume 3