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During the Napoleonic Wars, why did Napoleon single out Erfurt as a special principality separate from the Confederation of the Rhine? Why did he declare it to have 'imperial immediacy'? Why was it uniquely special to him?

by /u/st_sebastian in /r/AskHistorians

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