Andrew Roberts

Napoleon

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    ‘If I were black,’ Napoleon said, ‘I would be for the blacks; being white, I am for the whites.’
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    ‘To spend the night between a pretty woman and a fine sky, and spend the day recording observations and making calculations, seems to me to be happiness on earth.’
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    Sturm-und-Drang
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    ‘Do you know how I managed?’ Napoleon later recalled of this period of his life. ‘By never entering a café or going into society; by eating dry bread, and brushing my own clothes so that they might last the longer. I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.’
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    but he had little interest in equality of outcome, human rights, freedom of the press or parliamentarianism
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    his family nickname of ‘Rabulione’, or troublemaker.
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