18. We will annex Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Livonia, Trieste, Venice, and the North of France from the Somme to the Loire. This programme, which we are allowing ourselves to propose, is not the work of a madman, and the Empire which we want to found i not a Utopia. We have the means to realize it in our hands already. Let tender souls not pity the vanquished. These little States, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, will be quite happy to allow themselves to be united in the immense Empire. They, who do not count while they are autonomous bodies, will be exalted with the good fortune of power, since they will only be a cell of our proligious organism.
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