Pope Nicholas III

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    And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
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    Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
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    The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)