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SubjectRe: Queen mother (of Britain) has died
FromArkady
Date2002-04-05 21:29 (2002-04-05 19:29)
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"?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>wrote in message news:2UXq8.2039$tI1.5385@nntpserver.swip.net...

?jevind L?ng
Arkady wrote:

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Arkady
Quite so. However rule by Code Napoleon was preferable in my eyes to the absolutist rule that preceded and succeeded Bonapartism.

?jevind L?ng
Arkady, you do know, don't you, that the French occupation was perceived

as

oppression by the peoples subjcted to it? I am talking about the Dutch

(who

certainly needed no lessons in running a good society from the French),

the

inhabitants of the various German principates, the Spaniards, the

Italians,

the Swiss and quite a number of other peoples. They preferred to work out how their society they should look themselves, just as, for example, the subjected peoples in the former Soviet Union. And talking about absolutist rule - what do you think Napoleon's rule

was?

He decided everything; the Bourbons never wielded such total power as he did.

?jevind

Oje, I understand and largely agree with your points, and smile knowingly at your barbed reference to the late lamented Soviet Union. I was going to start a debate, then I read this:

"P. S. I am braced for the inevitable post from Russ pointing out that Sweden sold iron ore to Germany during the Second World War - it is Russ's catchall response to any post that does not live up to his exacting standards for commentary about "the True Faith" or the mysteries of Irish nationalism."

And realised I love you to much to take an oppositional stance to anything you say. I surrender unconditionally.

Your disciple,

Arkady

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