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But Napoleon protests vigorously, and then,
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trying to add insult to injury,
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his ambassador literally chases the German emperor
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around his garden
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and is fairly abusive in a verbal way,
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and Bismarck seizes on this to stoke up anger
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against France and then reveals to the European world,
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or those people who cared,
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that Napoleon III had earlier tried to make a deal
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which in exchange for supporting Prussia
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against Austria he would receive Belgium and Luxemburg,
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which of course the British could never tolerate.