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1. ‘Here, there is nothing.’

2. Louis XV’s eldest daughter (cf. The Man with the Lead Stomach).

3. The author cannot resist quoting this very eighteenth-century statement by Talleyrand, spoken when he presented to Emperor Franz of Austria the jewels originally given as a gift by Napoleon to Marie-Louise.

4. A net was stretched across the Seine at Saint-Cloud to collect the bodies of the drowned.