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connivance, as though he had an official mission, only to discover from the empress at
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in August 1870 was questioned because, while the
Prussians were exhausted from the fighting, and the French were poised to mount a counter-attack, Bourbaki refused to commit the reserves of the French Imperial Guard to the battle because he considered it a defeat.
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on 26 January 1871, and tried to commit suicide that night. He fired a pistol at his forehead, but the bullet somehow "flattened as if against a cast-iron plate" and his life was saved. General
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The Artist and the
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a signed photograph with a message to the emperor
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in extreme southwestern France, the son of Greek colonel
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