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The New International Encyclopædia/Badinguet

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Edition of 1905. See also Napoleon III on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.

BADINGUET, bȧ′dăN′gā̇. Napoleon III., often so called because the garments in which, in 1846, he escaped from the Castle of Ham, belonged to a mason of that name. His party came to be known thereafter as the ‘Badingueux.’