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...inner calmness that lets him ycut through crisis and make his decisions from a base of mature reflection. Ike likes to cite Napoleon to the effect that the true genius in war is one who can do the average thing when those around him grow hysterical with emotion or fright...
...bringing off stunts that the Kremlin would not quickly forget. They fired a cannon to re-create the moment when the charred remains of the Pretender Dmitry were muzzle-loaded and blasted back toward Poland. With smoke pots and magnesium flares, they simulated the burning of the Kremlin by Napoleon. Though Moscow's fire department had been warned, ten or twelve noisy fire trucks came rushing to the scene anyway...
...French Revolution, the school doubled as a jail for "enemies" of the Revolution, including Old Grad Robespierre, on his way to the guillotine. So combustible was 19th century France that between 1801 and 1873 the school was renamed eight times-from the Lycée Impérial (Napoleon's era) to the Lycée Descartes (the 1848 revolution). What never changed was the stunning output of famous men. Painters Degas, Delacroix and Géricault went there; so did Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. Louis-le-grand taught Writers Victor Hugo, Charles...
...they chose, and the rational individual was enthroned as monarch of the universe. Never was the triumph of individualism more swiftly followed by disaster. In the French Revolution the Goddess of Reason danced in the streets?until she found herself at the foot of the guillotine. It remained for Napoleon to create from the Revolution the modern state (including the draft and the secret police) in which individual men are submerged in the abstract glory of the nation...
Bonaparte in Egypt, by J. Christopher Herold. The vividly detailed saga of Napoleon's three years in Egypt and of the gradual erosion of both his army and his dream of Eastern empire...