Le Tentateur, 19th century. The Tempter. [Satire on the Temptation of Christ]: If you agree to be mine, this Empire will be yours! [Russian czar Nicholas I as the devil, with his hand on the shoulder of the Greek king, Otto I, points to Byzantium in the distance as the prize for Greece entering the Crimean War].

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