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J. Christopher Herold

(1919–1964) Editor Czechoslovakia

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J. Christopher Herold was an editor from the Czechoslovakia, best known for The Age of Napoleon.

Quick Facts About J. Christopher Herold

Born: May 11, 1919
Died: December 10, 1964
Nationality: Czechoslovakia
Profession: Editor
Notable works: The Age of Napoleon

About J. Christopher Herold

Jean Christopher Herold was a Czech-American university press editor and author. While holding an editorship for Columbia University Press from 1946 to 1956, Herold edited Columbia Encyclopedia articles about European history. From 1956 to 1960, Herold was the editor of Stanford University Press.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship National Book Award for Nonfiction

Quotes by J. Christopher Herold

“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His…

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Empty places

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Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by…

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Aversion

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The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out…

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Allies

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“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.…

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Authority

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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

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Bounds

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“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most…

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Freedom

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His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a…

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Effort

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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a…

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Aim

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The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of…

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Allies

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“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories…

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Despotism

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“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political…

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Bonaparte

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“The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English…

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Death-rates

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A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie…

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Beast

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“Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.”

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Hate

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“Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful…

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Beautiful women

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“The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and…

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Napoleon

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“A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on…

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Napoleon

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