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Show Napoleon Was Superstitious Napoleon III, emperor of France, was inclined to be supersiticus, and historians report that he left the seal he wore on his watch chain to his son, the unfortunate prince imperial, im-perial, as a talisman. This seal is said to have borne an inscription ! in Arabic characters, signifying: j "The slave Abraham rclyir.S on the I Merciful One (God)." Tne talisman I lost its virtue cn that ur.iucky day j when, in far off Zu'a'.a: the heir i to so many hopes was s'--:n in a j battle with natives. |