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Napoleon III 'should be part of the post-Brexit deal': French historians want their last monarch to be returned from tomb in a Hampshire church
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 1, 2020 | Sophie Law

Posted on 03/01/2020 4:04:17 AM PST by C19fan

French historians have demanded the return of Napoleon III in the wake of Brexit, whose remains lie in a tomb in Hampshire. The emperor, who was the final monarch to rule France before he died in exile in 1873, was laid to rest in a church in Farnborough. But historians in France are hoping to have his remains repatriated as part of a post-Brexit trade deal.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1873; brexit; farnborough; france; godsgravesglyphs; hampshire; history; napoleon; napoleoniii
Mr Casali, who has written a book about the monarch, said: 'He was a very, very great man. It's very important for France to have the body of Napoleon III.

Huh???? The only reason the man was able to rise to power was because he was of his name. Bismarck ran rings around him.

1 posted on 03/01/2020 4:04:17 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

They’re fighting over bones now?


2 posted on 03/01/2020 4:07:22 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: C19fan

Do to the French, like the Vietnamese did to us ... How much aree you willing to pay?


3 posted on 03/01/2020 4:23:33 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan

Demand the French pay back rent, then hand him over.


4 posted on 03/01/2020 4:35:21 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: VTenigma

That’s what Europe was like before 1938, I suspe6it would go back to that behavior after the EU collapses. Probably with a more bloody period with all the muslims there.


5 posted on 03/01/2020 4:35:40 AM PST by Bayard
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To: VTenigma

Some one get me a shoe box!


6 posted on 03/01/2020 4:43:48 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Terry L Smith

The UK could offer to trade N-III for the British/Scottish monarchs buried in France.


7 posted on 03/01/2020 4:53:47 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: C19fan

French historians have demanded the return of Napoleon III in the wake of Brexit, whose remains lie in a tomb in Hampshire
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Okaaaaaaay

So Brexit is dead and buried ???

A little editing ...

In the wake of Brexit, French historians have demanded the return of Napoleon III whose remains lie in a tomb in Hampshire.


8 posted on 03/01/2020 5:03:28 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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So they were OK with the body being in the UK before the EU became a thing, and all during the UK’s membership, and now they suddenly aren’t? Very strange, even for cheese-eating surrender monkeys.


9 posted on 03/01/2020 5:57:02 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Did they apologize for trying to steal Mexico* yet?

*most in the US think Cinco de Mayo is About Mexico getting independence from Spain, actually it’s a celebration of the Mexicans driving out the French when, counting on distraction by the Civil War, Napoleon III invaded Mexico and tried to enslave them under Maximillian.


10 posted on 03/01/2020 6:13:09 AM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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“Huh???? The only reason the man was able to rise to power was because he was of his name.”

No, it took a lot more than that. If it was only his name that mattered, then he would not have lost in 1836 and 1840 only to bounce back and win control of the country. Napoleon III was as bold as Napoleon I (if not more so), but lacked the original Napoleon’s military expertise and political insight. Still, he was a great man in that he achieved what no one thought he could.

“Bismarck ran rings around him.”

Bismarck did that to everyone. And then Bismarck was ignominiously run out of politics by the upstart German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Fun fact: Rachel Félix, the most prominent and beautiful French actress of her day, not only had an affair with Napoleon III but with the illegitimate son of Napoleon I. Meanwhile Napoleon III had an affair with the wife of that illegitimate son!


11 posted on 03/01/2020 7:28:28 AM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: C19fan

“Russia didn’t get Marx, and you lot ain’t getting Napoleon III.”


12 posted on 03/01/2020 8:05:26 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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"French historians have demanded the return of Napoleon III in the wake of Brexit, whose remains lie in a tomb in Hampshire."

Is he being mistreated?
13 posted on 03/01/2020 8:30:21 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: C19fan

Correct.

And Brexit has nothing to do with his remains. After all many of the British kings are buried in what is now France and they spoke mainly or only Gallo French


14 posted on 03/01/2020 8:18:06 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Calvin Locke

The tricky part is that kings like Richard the Lionheart were more French than Rnglish and they had substantial holdings in what is now France


15 posted on 03/01/2020 8:19:38 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Max in Utah

Let them have the fool bones of the low IQ Emperor who did so much to make Germany great and wreck the world. He did little to remember.


16 posted on 03/01/2020 8:21:02 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Max in Utah

Marx was German


17 posted on 03/01/2020 8:21:03 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: clearcarbon
Is he being mistreated?

Are you kidding? He hasn't had a decent meal in 137 years!

Also, no Internet.

18 posted on 03/01/2020 8:22:14 PM PST by Billthedrill
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This topic was posted 3/1/2020, thanks C19fan.

19 posted on 01/09/2022 11:01:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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