Secret Protocols by Peter Vansittart5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() We may say there exists, morally, physically, a governing rule which allows institutions and certain individuals alike a fated limit, marked by the extent of their usefulness. They vanish, because their mission is accomplished. He looks at his two-volume set of Caesar and recalls a paragraph: Towards the end of Hermes in Paris is a powerful chapter in which Napoleon III, weary and in pain, sits alone in his study contemplating the stand-off with Prussia. (Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Napoleon III (1855), now in Museo Napoleonico, Rome found here) ![]()
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