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Napoleon in repose; and that was the splendid epoch when
the grand army had Marengo behind it and Austerlitz be-
fore it.—‘Sire,’ said the Minister of the Interior to Napoleon,
‘yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire.’—
‘What man is that?’ said the Emperor brusquely, ‘and what
has he done?’—‘He wants to do something, Sire.’—‘What is
it?’—‘To visit the sewers of Paris.’
This man existed and his name was Bruneseau.

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