Sedan
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
City where Anthony, mistaken for a Catholic, narrowly escaped assassination.
He fled for refuge to Sedan, where, being taken for a Papist, he narrowly escaped assassination.
One of the agents of the king’s brother, of the Duke of Bouillon, sovereign prince of Sedan, and of the grand Equerry d’Effiat St.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Site of the decisive 1870 military defeat that ended Napoleon III's reign.
An autocrat who aspired to play the part of a modern Cæsar ruled France for some eighteen years, but his reign ended with the disaster and ignominy of Sedan.