The alternative to the city, the empire, can only be ruled despotically.

替代的城市与帝国社会，将仅能接受专制统治。

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One is that during the Second Empire, which was that regime of Napoleon III that lasted from 1852 to till he was really rounded up by the Prussians in 1870.

一个是法国当时正处于法兰西第二帝国时期,在拿破仑三世的统治之下,这段时期始于一八五二年,直到一八七零年他被普鲁士军队所俘虏

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