The first time I realized I had been mislead by media about Napoleon was when I read the following words he had written to his wife Josephine:
Not a day goes by without my loving you,
not a night without holding you in my arms.
I have not drunk so much as a cup of tea without cursing the call to glory and ambition which wrench me from the soul of my life!
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There I realized he was a passionate man and a true genius. That’s how I understood there has been a massive campaign against him to blacken his name.
Another brilliant work of his is Eugenie and Clisson, Napoleon’s romance novella.
https://www.thetanster.com/blog/2019/9/9/b4gw2ps9p5l7y0i0hf4kquzk0m6s05
To find out more about this transcendental and much maligned genius, you may enjoy the work below:
https://www.thetanster.com/blog/2019/2/11/napoleon-memoirs-links
