Nikolaus I.
said
The Danubian principalities are in fact an independent State under my protection; that solution may continue.
— Remarks to the ambassador of Queen Victoria, Sir Hamilton Seymour (14 January 1853), quoted in Imbert de Saint-Amand, Napoleon III and His



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