12/11/2023 0 Comments Napoleon death![]() ![]() His patriotism is simply love of his troops and his profession. How, then, was this pupil of a military school prepared to exercise the functions of sovereignty? An officer, as such, has no idea of divided power. With talents and enterprise beyond all comparison greater than any against which he had to contend, he overthrew whatever opposed his progress…. The public crisis into which he was thrown gave to profound selfishness the form of insatiable ambition. Thus terminates in exile and in prison the most extraordinary life yet known to political history.… Buonaparte came into active life with as much (but we have no reason to think a larger share of) lax morality and pure selfishness as others of his age and calling. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France London ![]() Death of Napoleon the Great, French engraving from 1828.
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