stackyFACTSIn an absolutely baffling piece of foreign intervention, French forces decided a distant nation needed a monarch. They completely randomly selected an obscure Austrian archduke, told him he was an Emperor now, and shipped him across the ocean to a deeply unreceptive populace.
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