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There is a certain intellectual arrogance in a man of letters judging a man of action, but Tolstoy was undeterred by that, and War and Peace might be called Napoleon's second Waterloo. Tolstoy's thesis was that the multitudinous whims of chance, rather than the decisive will of a great man, determine history. War and Peace thus helped to foster an antiheroic philosophy of history that has gradually depopulated the modern novel and drama of heroes. But Tolstoy's own generalship, his vast marshaling and deployment of esthetic forces, never faltered. A century after his masterpiece...
...them under all foreseeable circumstances, particularly a decade or two hence, when it may be disastrously involved in Latin America, Asia or Africa. And De Gaulle argues that the U.S. has always been "late" in entering European wars; yet the U.S. can reply with equal distrust that virtually since Waterloo, France has been gravely wanting as a resolute military power. The U.S. must look to a France after De Gaulle, with a large Communist vote and the political chaos of the Fourth Republic conceivably revived...
...closely contested race, panting beside Marshals Ney, Murat and Massena. The Duke of Wellington was gaining fast amid cries that "The Englishman is right on our rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined the Emperor. Mais non! Who should hit the tape first at the Waterloo velodrome? That Prussian ringer, Marshal Blücher. Merde alors...
...country's solemn passions, Bonaparte and bicycle racing. But so outraged at the "indecent parody" was retired Toulouse Lawyer Francois Bousgarbiès, 79, that the peppery little patriot haled the network into court for what the French press gleefully called "the new Battle of Waterloo." Demanded Plaintiff Bousgarbiès: the network must apologize to the nation, destroy the film and pay him 1 franc (20?) in symbolic damages...
...review of Malaparte's Those Cursed Tuscans [Oct. 30] makes me recall how Kurt Erich Suckert explained to me in Rome in 1926 why he had chosen Curzio Malaparte as his pen name (and later as his own name). "Buonaparte," he said, "won at Austerlitz and lost at Waterloo. Malaparte loses at Austerlitz and wins at Waterloo." I knew him from 1925 until his death, and even wrote a "fictitious reminiscence" about him. I can assure you that the hatred and contempt were of his last writing period alone and never in his personal relations...