TREATIES SUBLIME, RIDICULOUS.(MAIN)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | April 9, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON -- You will be relieved to learn that France's copy of the Treaty of Fontainebleau -- signed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 but which mysteriously vanished from the French national archives in 1988 -- has been safely in FBI hands for five years.

That's how long it has taken Mary Jo Molasses, the dilatory U.S. attorney in New York, to prosecute a couple who tried to sell the treaty through an auction house in 1995. In the document, Napoleon -- crushed by Prussia, Austria and Russia -- abdicated as emperor before being exiled ...

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