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Napoleon

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Corsica that a descendant of the most famous Corsican of all -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- is now running for mayor of the French island's capital, Ajaccio (ah-ZHAHK-see-oh). Ironically, the great-great-great-great-grand nephew of the emperor, Prince Charles Napoleon, is a political unknown.

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