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Title: The court of the second empire
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Imbert de Saint-Amand, 1834-1900
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 France -- History Second Empire, 1852-1870 France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^ had gained in Africa the reputationof a brave and deserving officer. But for him thearmy was but the prelude to social and political
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COUNT de MORNY COUNT DE MOItNY 75 life. He resigned his commission in 1838, and wentto Paris, where the dandy and the man of businessreplaced the officer. He had once been in garrisonat Clermont-Ferrand, where he had made friends,and where he now found the source of his privatefortune and that of his political rise. He bought abeet-sugar manufactory m the suburbs of the town,and in 1838 published a pamphlet on the questionof sugars which gained his appointment, at the ageof twenty-seven, as president of the sugar industrycommission. In 1842 he became deputy from Puy-de-Dôme. At this time M. de Morny was an Orleanist, anddid not dream of the resurrection of the Empire.In the Chamber he occupied one of the right centrebenches, and was a very energetic supporter of M.Guizots ministry. He was thoroughly competent tohandle the commercial and industrial questions towhich he devoted himself. Among other reformshe asked for small bank-notes, and on the subjectof the conversion of annuities o

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