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Excerpt from Marie Louise: And the Decadence of the Empire
Marie Louise was not Regent: Napoleon reigned and governed from the heart of Russia. An auditor of the Council of State carried to him every week the reports and propositions of the ministers. The Min isters of Police wrote to him every day; and the Emperor also received confidential notes from people who, although they held no official position, were commissioned to write to him on questions of inter nal policy, on the state of public sentiment, and even on literary subjects. From a distance of seven hundred leagues he directed his vast empire, with its one hundred and thirty departments, reaching from the Tiber to the mouths of the Elbe and the Scheldt, exactly as if he had been in his capital.
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