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When he decided to divorce for dynastic and geostrategic reasons, Josephine was desolate but they remained friendly.
‘Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard,’ he once said. ‘When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep? I simply close all the drawers, and there I am – asleep.’92
He pronounced that novels were ‘for ladies’ maids’ and ordered the librarian, ‘Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.’17 He was apparently overlooking the forty novels, including English ones in French translation, he himself had brought out.
(Soliman was executed with a pike driven into his rectum up to his breast.)
