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Excerpt from Fifty Years of Public Work of Sir Henry Cole, K. C. B, Vol. 1 of 2: Accounted for in His Deeds, Speeches, and Writings
Napoleon I. On his voyage of banishment to St. Helena. In 1855, however, Queen Victoria records in her Diary the historical fact, that I met him (the Emperor Napoleon III., the nephew), and embraced him twice, with the customary mutual salutations of sovereigns. The Queen has published a very graphic account of the visit to Paris at the Exhibition of that year when I was the Acting Commissioner.'
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