Word: delteilish
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...sometimes thundering, sometimes blustering, sometimes mellifluous narrative poem written in prose (it reads as if it had been exceedingly well translated). The hero is not so much the man as the idea, Napoleon. Not that Author Delteil warps the facts of history; but he gives them an original and Delteilish emphasis. Napoleon's driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander, to conquer the East. "From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life...
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