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"Write!" snapped the Emperor, and instantly a flood of words poured from the imperial mouth-natural, conversational words spoken with such intimate intensity as to give the illusion that the recipients of the letters were entering the room one by one, hearing the Emperor's orders with their own...
Napoleon wrote between 50,000 and 70,000 letters in this way during the 15 years of his dictatorship. Thirty-nine years after Waterloo, Napoleon III (youngest son of the first Emperor's brother, Louis Bonaparte) ordered "official" (i.e., edited and censored) publication of the correspondence-and landed his...
But in matters that required an imperious technique, Napoleon dropped duplicity overboard and went straight to the point. At a ball in Warsaw he saw his future mistress, Marie Walewska, for the first time, and brusquely gave her the imperial works: "I saw no one but you, I admired no...
Prestige & Folly. Revolts are rare events on the Tory side. Next day Sir Winston Churchill walked into a packed Commons committee room to face the objectors. The rebels had always regarded Anthony Eden as their enemy and the old imperialist Prime Minister as their secret friend. Had he not thundered...
The Viet Nam nation is a recent French consolidation of three ancient provinces: Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China. The Chinese ruled Tonkin and northern Annam for more than the 1,000 years, until they were expelled in the 10th century by native Annamites who were themselves of part-Chinese stock...