Word: soult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kingdoms and principalities* all over the Continent-but always as mouthpieces of the supreme "N." "Your letters," Napoleon tells his brother Louis, King of Holland, "are always talking of obedience and of respect; but [these] consist in not going so fast in such important matters without my advice." Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, is asked: "How could a man of your ability have supposed that I should ever allow you to exercise any authority not derived from me? Your action shows . . . a failure to realize my character...