The Empress Eugénie — wife of deposed emperor Napoleon III of France — had been exiled to England and wished to finance a magazine, the Lantern, to defend Prussia — and offend her arch-enemy Rochefort, who had published La Lanterne in France. Mortimer, acting as her agent, choose [Ambrose] Bierce to “edit” the project, although he wrote virtually every word of its only two issues.
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