"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."

Society, France, Russia, Satisfaction

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"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."

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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

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