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overthrow the Assembly.
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Napoleon had a bit of a faltering
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and his brother Lucien helped him out there
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because he lost--
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the only time in his life he really lost his courage--
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they overthrow the government and impose a consulate in which Napoleon
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becomes the first council and finally snatches the crown
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it is thought from the Pope and crowns himself emperor.
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And Napoleon adopts what would become the most Gaullist political strategy
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shared by that of governments of North Korea
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among other dictatorships that is the plebiscite where you
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ask people with a cagy question "Do you agree"--