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Imperial April Fool Days and a Hanged Cat Tale
By Ripley explains two cartoons: Napoleon and Marie Louise wed on April Fool’s Day 1810 in St. Cloud, then her desertion in 1814 after fleeing Paris. also the medieval public trial of animals like a Longueville cat condemned to death for child murder in 1476.
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Napoleon I
Marie-Louise of Austria
Apollo Gallery
St. Cloud
Cambaceres
Tuileries
Prussia
Russia
Austria
Napoleon
Longueville
France