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Napoleon, the little bread seller and a bomb in a cart
When Royalist plotters bent on assassinating Napoleon placed a bomb in a horse-drawn cart, they needed someone to hold the reins of the horse. That person was a poor young bread seller, Marianne Peusol.
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