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“to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in…

— Victor Hugo

“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…

— J. Christopher Herold

“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When a young…

— Ron Chernow

“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided…

— Victor Hugo

“There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power,”…

— Kate Williams

“I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs…

— Marcel Proust

“There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.”

— Pat Conroy

“What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?”

— Saul Bellow

“According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter…

— Vilhelm Moberg

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially…

— Jeffrey Archer

“I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have…

— David Liss