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Arias, a Nobel laureate, said he was informed of the decision weeks after he had publicly criticised Donald Trump, comparing the behaviour of the US president to that of a Roman emperor.

Legend has it that when the emperor's favorite concubine fell ill, a two-week diet of sugar-coated hawthorn berries ultimately healed her.

They yearn for the era of kings and emperors.

Not until 1867 would France achieve a colonial dream in North America, with the brief, catastrophic “reign” of France’s puppet emperor, the Habsburg prince Maximilian, in Mexico.

In times past visiting dignitaries would give emperors gifts and tributes.