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“Figure Combinations”

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Napoleon_III.jpg

Curious coincidences in the lives of Louis Philippe and Napoleon III, from a French daily paper of 1869 — the central events in their lives seem to foretell their downfall:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ba7NAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false

See The Stars Align.

March 13, 2010December 16, 2010 | History · Oddities

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