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

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

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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 women, was…

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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 of the…

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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. Unfortunately the…

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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 radical among…

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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 friend of…

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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 prelude to…

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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 the way,…

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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 and the…

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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 sense.”

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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 generals were…

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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 Antoinette's intimate…

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