I'll start with the later Napoleon III's second coup attempt in 1840:
"In the summer of 1840 he bought weapons and uniforms and had proclamations printed, gathered a contingent of about sixty armed men, hired a ship called the Edinburgh-Castle, and on 6 August 1840, sailed across the Channel to the port of Boulogne. The attempted coup turned into an even greater fiasco than the Strasbourg mutiny. The mutineers were stopped by the customs agents......."
Sounds alomst like a Monty Python sketch:
'Why do you want to enter the country ?'
'Well I'm doing a coup right now to take over this country'
'Sorry sir, cannot let you in and have to arrest you'
But then: he was put in prison, started to write books and newspaper contributions there and became popular. Got elected president with his new popularity and then coup'ed himself into emperorship....
This story somehow sounds familiar in some ways.....
"In the summer of 1840 he bought weapons and uniforms and had proclamations printed, gathered a contingent of about sixty armed men, hired a ship called the Edinburgh-Castle, and on 6 August 1840, sailed across the Channel to the port of Boulogne. The attempted coup turned into an even greater fiasco than the Strasbourg mutiny. The mutineers were stopped by the customs agents......."
Sounds alomst like a Monty Python sketch:
'Why do you want to enter the country ?'
'Well I'm doing a coup right now to take over this country'
'Sorry sir, cannot let you in and have to arrest you'
But then: he was put in prison, started to write books and newspaper contributions there and became popular. Got elected president with his new popularity and then coup'ed himself into emperorship....
This story somehow sounds familiar in some ways.....
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