The Spirit of Despotism

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There is a moment in Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma when the hero Fabrice, no longer the naive teenager who had chased off to support Napoleon at Waterloo, but polished by four years spent at Naples, is introduced for the first time at the court of Ranuce Ernest IV, the Prince and absolute ruler of the state of Parma.

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