A skill required of royalty and politicians

Lying quickly and invisibly …

My 19th-century blogger Miss Frances Williams Wynn is today reporting on Jerome, King of Westphalia, who receives a letter of rebuke from his older brother, Napoleon, about the state of his army, but reads it out as though it is praise.

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